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Blue Tutors

Every blue card in Magic that searches your library for the one you need, sorted by how many tracked decks actually run it

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Blue tutors ranked

What are the best blue tutors in MTG?

The best blue tutors in MTG are the ones players actually reach for, and a handful of those measurably raise your win rate. The list below ranks every mono-blue tutor in Magic: The Gathering by how many tracked Commander decks run it, counted from real games on Playgroup.gg. Where a card has been played enough for us to measure its effect on winning, and that effect is clearly positive, its win-rate lift is shown beside the count.

Deck counts are drawn from 146,944 tracked decks on Playgroup.gg.

See tutors in every color on the main list.

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The most-played mono-blue tutors

Ranked by the number of tracked decks running the card, not by a rating. A win-rate lift appears beside the few cards whose measured effect on winning is clearly positive.

6,161
Decks running Mystical Tutor
# Card Decks
1
Mystical Tutor
Mystical Tutor {U} +0.9% win rate · 10,973 games with it · 1295 pilots · 458 commander groups 		6,161
2
Fabricate
Fabricate {2} {U} 		3,208
3
Muddle the Mixture
Muddle the Mixture {U} {U} 		2,137
4
Solve the Equation
Solve the Equation {2} {U} 		1,852
5
Whir of Invention
Whir of Invention {X} {U} {U} {U} 		1,445
6
Spellseeker
Spellseeker {2} {U} 		1,341
7
Gifts Ungiven
Gifts Ungiven {3} {U} +1.5% win rate · 2,778 games with it · 270 pilots · 164 commander groups 		1,093
8
Tezzeret the Seeker
Tezzeret the Seeker {3} {U} {U} +0.9% win rate · 2,042 games with it · 250 pilots · 94 commander groups 		1,066
9
Alphinaud Leveilleur
Alphinaud Leveilleur {3} {U} 		934
10
Tribute Mage
Tribute Mage {2} {U} 		934
Show 20 more blue tutors (ranks 11-30)
# Card Decks
11
Personal Tutor
Personal Tutor {U} 		932
12
Trinket Mage
Trinket Mage {2} {U} 		906
13
Scour for Scrap
Scour for Scrap {3} {U} 		905
14
Intuition
Intuition {2} {U} 		830
15
Trophy Mage
Trophy Mage {2} {U} 		812
16
Drift of Phantasms
Drift of Phantasms {2} {U} 		718
17
Merchant Scroll
Merchant Scroll {1} {U} 		718
18
Reshape
Reshape {X} {U} {U} 		680
19
Inevitable Betrayal
Inevitable Betrayal 		663
20
Step Through
Step Through {3} {U} {U} 		626
21
Bribery
Bribery {3} {U} {U} 		614
22
Jace, Architect of Thought
Jace, Architect of Thought {2} {U} {U} 		567
23
Transmute Artifact
Transmute Artifact {U} {U} 		500
24
Enter the Infinite
Enter the Infinite {8} {U} {U} {U} {U} 		472
25
Long-Term Plans
Long-Term Plans {2} {U} 		462
26
Repurposing Bay
Repurposing Bay {2} {U} 		461
27
Toothy, Imaginary Friend
Toothy, Imaginary Friend {3} {U} 		437
28
Tezzeret, Artifice Master
Tezzeret, Artifice Master {3} {U} {U} 		434
29
Higure, the Still Wind
Higure, the Still Wind {3} {U} {U} 		396
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Dizzy Spell
Dizzy Spell {U} 		352
Other colors

Tutors in the other colors

A blue deck can also run every colorless tutor, and most Commander decks are not mono-colored:

White tutors Black tutors Red tutors Green tutors Colorless tutors
Methodology

How this list is built

The candidate pool is every Commander-legal card carrying Scryfall's tutor oracle tag with a mono-blue color identity, minus the cards whose only search is for lands. Multicolor cards are excluded on purpose: a blue tutor should go in any blue deck. Each card is counted across every non-archived tracked deck whose mainboard contains it, and the list is ordered by that count.

Most tutors do not measurably change whether you win. We compare decks that run a card against decks on the same commander that do not, pool those matched comparisons, and ask whether the difference is bigger than chance; only a handful of cards clear that bar. Ordering a list by a number whose confidence interval crosses zero for most of its rows would be ranking sampling error, so the list is ordered by deck count instead and the measurement rides alongside.

A win-rate lift appears beside a card only when it has been played enough to judge and its measured effect is clearly positive: minimums on games with the card, on separate commander groups and on distinct pilots, a cap on how much of the sample any one pilot may hold, and an interval landing entirely above zero. A card that was measured and came out flat gets an empty cell rather than a number near zero, because a number near zero reads as a verdict and this one is not.

Read that figure as a difference, not a multiplier. A +2.2% lift means a deck running the card wins 2.2 percentage points more often than decks on the same commander without it: 27.2% of its games rather than 25.0%. It is not a 2.2% relative increase, and it is not a claim that the card wins 2.2% of your games on its own.

Counts are drawn from 146,944 tracked decks on Playgroup.gg.

Read the full methodology on the main tutors page

Blue tutors FAQ

What is a tutor in Magic: The Gathering?
A tutor is a card that searches your library for another card. The name comes from Demonic Tutor, printed in 1993. Tutors trade a card and some mana for consistency: instead of hoping to draw the card you need, you go and get it. That matters more in Commander than in any other format, because your deck is a hundred cards and you only ever get one copy of each.
Which color has the best tutors?
Black, and it is not close. Black tutors search for any card at all, which is why Demonic Tutor and Vampiric Tutor are the benchmarks the others are measured against. White and green tutors are usually restricted to a card type, blue leans on cheap instant-speed searching that puts the card on top of your library rather than in your hand, and red mostly gets tutors with a drawback attached, like Gamble.
Why isn't Cultivate on this list?
Because it is ramp. Cultivate, Farseek, Evolving Wilds and the other land searchers do technically search your library, but players do not call them tutors, and putting them here would bury the cards you came looking for. These lists cover tutors that fetch a nonland card.
Are tutors too strong in Commander?
They are strong, and the numbers on this page show which ones measurably move a deck's win rate. Whether that is too strong is a table conversation rather than a rules question. A tutor makes your deck more consistent, and consistency cuts both ways: it makes your good draws more common and your games more similar. Some playgroups limit tutors by agreement. Nothing in the rules does.
Why are there no multicolor tutors on this list?
Every list here is mono-colored on purpose. A mono-blue tutor goes in any deck whose color identity includes blue, while a two or three color tutor only fits decks in those exact colors. Restricting each list to a single color identity means every card on it is playable in every deck that can cast that color, which is usually what people are asking for when they search for blue tutors.
Do blue tutors put the card into your hand?
Usually not. Blue's cheap tutors put the card on top of your library, so you still have to spend a draw to reach it. Mystical Tutor finds an instant or a sorcery for one mana at instant speed and leaves it on top, and Personal Tutor does the same for a sorcery. What blue buys with that is speed and price, one mana at instant speed against two mana or 2 life in black. The blue tutors that do put a card in your hand are narrower, like Merchant Scroll for a blue instant or Fabricate for an artifact.
Why does this list look different from other tutor lists?
Most tutor lists are one writer's ranking. This one is counted. Every card here carries Scryfall's tutor tag, ordered by how many tracked Commander decks actually run it, so the list reflects what players sleeve up rather than what an editor rates. We also measure whether each card raises a deck's win rate against decks running the same commander without it, and only the few that clearly do carry a win-rate figure.
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