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Mystical Tutor

Instant

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
mythic
Set
From the Vault: Exiled
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#142
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Mystical Tutor card art
Mystical Tutor puts any instant or sorcery on top of your library for a single blue mana — the restriction is that you don't draw it until next turn, which is a real cost in fast metas but trivial when you're fetching a game-ending spell like Approach of the Second Sun. In high-synergy shells like Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept, where the whole deck is built to find one specific spell at the right moment, that one-turn delay is just part of the plan.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy banned
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage restricted
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Mystical Tutor carries two structural restrictions: it puts the card on top rather than into hand, and it costs you a draw step to cash it in. Legacy banned it anyway — one blue mana to find any instant or sorcery is simply too efficient when every spell in the format is broken, and Vintage restricts it for the same reason. Commander gives it a pass because the 100-card singleton constraint means you're often just finding one specific bullet rather than assembling a degenerate chain on demand, and the top-of-library delay is genuinely punishing when opponents can interact on your draw step or before your next turn.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Rograkh, Son of RohgahhSilas Renn, Seeker Adept

Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept

90.9% of decks · synergy 0.77

Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh // Silas Renn, Seeker Adept is one of the most tutor-dense cEDH builds in the format, and Mystical Tutor showing up in over 90% of those lists reflects exactly how much the deck values one-mana access to its key combo spells and interaction pieces.

02
Malcolm, Keen-Eyed NavigatorVial Smasher the Fierce

Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator // Vial Smasher the Fierce

66.8% of decks · synergy 0.53

Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator // Vial Smasher the Fierce runs a critical mass of instants and sorceries to fuel its spellslinger-pirates game plan, and Mystical Tutor gives it a cheap line to find the exact piece — whether that's a ritual, a bounce spell, or a finisher — that closes out a given game state.

03
Tevesh Szat, Doom of FoolsThrasios, Triton Hero

Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools // Thrasios, Triton Hero

48.5% of decks · synergy 0.41

Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools // Thrasios, Triton Hero is a dedicated cEDH combo shell that needs to find its win condition consistently across a hundred cards, and Mystical Tutor is one of the cheapest ways to guarantee that line is accessible on demand.

04
Elsha of the Infinite

Elsha of the Infinite

49.6% of decks · synergy 0.39

Elsha of the Infinite can cast spells from the top of the library, which collapses Mystical Tutor's main downside entirely — whatever you tutor onto the top, Elsha can cast immediately, effectively turning it into a one-mana unconditional spell tutor.

05

Ral, Monsoon Mage

59.8% of decks · synergy 0.38

Ral, Monsoon Mage cares about casting instants and sorceries repeatedly to trigger its storm-counting ability, and Mystical Tutor acts as a cheap setup spell that both adds to the spell count and fetches the exact payoff needed to close the storm chain.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Mystical Tutor has been reprinted across multiple premium products, so pricing shifts depending on which printing you're buying — check current listings on Scryfall or your preferred retailer before purchasing. Its cEDH demand keeps the floor elevated relative to most Commander staples, but the existence of several printings means there's usually an accessible entry point if you're willing to go with a non-foil copy.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.