Tutor
Cards and strategies that search your library for specific cards, dramatically increasing deck consistency. Named after Demonic Tutor, one of Magic’s most powerful cards.
How Tutors Work
A tutor lets you search your library for any card (or a specific type) and put it into your hand or onto the battlefield. This effectively means your deck always has access to its best card for any situation.
Types of Tutors
- Unrestricted — find any card: Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor
- Creature tutors — Worldly Tutor, Green Sun’s Zenith
- Land tutors — Crop Rotation, fetch lands
- Artifact/enchantment tutors — Enlightened Tutor, Fabricate
- To-battlefield — Natural Order, Birthing Pod skip the hand entirely
Tutors in Commander
Tutors are the most debated cards in Commander. They make decks more consistent but also more repetitive — every game plays out the same when you always find the same combo. Many playgroups limit or discourage heavy tutor usage under Rule 0.
Tutor Chains
Advanced players chain tutors: use one tutor to find another tutor to find the exact card needed. This is especially powerful in combo decks assembling multi-piece win conditions.
See Also
- Combo — A deck strategy built around assembling specific card combinations that win the game outright or create an insurmountable advantage. Combo decks sacrifice consistency and interaction for explosive, game-ending turns. How Combo Works Combo decks search for and assemble pieces of a winning combination — often two or three specific cards that interact to create an […]