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Cruel Tutor

First printed in Portal (1997)

All 4 prints

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  • Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal (TLE) #24, 2025
  • The List (PLST) #POR-87, 2020
  • Treasure Chest (PZ2) #65797, 2016 (digital)
  • Portal (POR) #87, 1997

Cruel Tutor

Sorcery

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

MTGO price: 3.15 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 28 Oct 2026).

In the last 30 days 0.3% of Commander decks played it (20 of 6150). Most played in Kraum, Ludevic's Opus + Tymna the Weaver.

Legality

Constructed

  • Standard Not legal
  • Pioneer Not legal
  • Modern Not legal
  • Legacy Legal
  • Vintage Legal
  • Pauper Not legal
  • Future Standard Not legal
  • Historic Legal
  • Timeless Legal
  • Alchemy Not legal
  • Penny Dreadful Not legal
  • Premodern Not legal
  • Old School 93/94 Not legal

Singleton

  • Gladiator Legal

Commander formats

  • Commander Legal
  • Duel Commander Legal
  • Pauper Commander Not legal
  • PreDH Legal
  • Tiny Leaders Legal
  • Oathbreaker Legal
  • Brawl Legal
  • Standard Brawl Not legal
  • Competitive Brawl Legal

In tournament decks of the last 30 days

Meta
share of the archetype in the format
Play it
decks of the archetype that play this card
Together
decks with this card that also play the other one (main deck)
Lift
how much more often than chance: 1 = unrelated, above 1 = played together on purpose

Commander Other periods →

In 20 of 6150 decks (0.3%).

Share of decks
0.3%
▼ 0.1 vs previous 30 days
2026-08-20: 0.0% 2026-08-27: 0.5% 2026-09-03: 0.5% 2026-09-10: 0.5% 2026-09-17: 0.4% 2026-09-24: 0.5% 2026-10-01: 0.3% 2026-10-08: 0.4% 2026-10-15: 0.3% 2026-10-22: 0.4%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
20
20 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
1.0
in the main deck
Win rate
28%
5 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
Kraum, Ludevic's Opus + Tymna the Weaver 8.3% 0%
Gwenom, Remorseless 0.3% 89%
Doctor Doom, Unrivaled 0.1% 40%
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 0.0% 100%

Played together with

Card Together Lift
Opposition Agent100%7.0
Vampiric Tutor100%2.1
Mana Vault100%1.2
Sol Ring100%1.0
Wishclaw Talisman95%3.5
Cabal Ritual95%3.2
Dark Ritual95%2.3
Demonic Tutor95%2.0
Lion's Eye Diamond95%1.9
Mox Opal95%1.7

Best win rate

DeckRecord
Gwenom, Remorseless
Renalcul in LDXP Sacramento - CEDH		 3-2
60%
Gwenom, Remorseless
🎀Melissa|Sparky’sGaming ⚡️ in TITANS OF THE UNDERGROUND FNM LAST CHANCE QUALIFIER		 3-2
60%
Gwenom, Remorseless
Donna Pulley in The CEDH Witching Hour		 3-4
43%
Gwenom, Remorseless
🎀Melissa|Sparky’sGaming ⚡️ in Spells and Scares CEDH Tournament		 2-4
33%
Gwenom, Remorseless
🎀Melissa|Sparky’sGaming ⚡️ in BellsCon CEDH Tournament		 2-4
33%
Gwenom, Remorseless
🎀Melissa|Sparky’sGaming ⚡️ in Deck Factory cEDH $1K event		 1-4
20%
Gwenom, Remorseless
Andrew Taylor in MBG Commanderpalooza #3 (TimeTwister event)		 1-5
17%
Gwenom, Remorseless
Dayko5 in MBG Commanderpalooza #3 (TimeTwister event)		 1-5
17%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Latest decks

DeckCopiesFinish
Gwenom, Remorseless
Renalcul, 		1 main #3
3-2
Gwenom, Remorseless
Tyler Cooley, 		1 main #13
1-2
Gwenom, Remorseless
Charles A Esparsen, 		1 main #20
1-1
Doctor Doom, Unrivaled
EDHsenpai [BAD], 		1 main #14
1-2
Gwenom, Remorseless
Andrew Taylor, 		1 main #97
1-5
Gwenom, Remorseless
Dayko5, 		1 main #104
1-5
Doctor Doom, Unrivaled
EDHsenpai [BAD], 		1 main #14
0-3
Gwenom, Remorseless
Donna Pulley, 		1 main #3
3-4

No recent decks in: Legacy, Vintage, Duel Commander.