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Worldly Tutor

Instant

Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Dominaria Remastered
Price
$23.15
EDHREC rank
#163
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Worldly Tutor card art
Worldly Tutor puts any creature on top of your library for one green mana at instant speed — the cost is that you already know what you're drawing next turn, which is fine when that card wins the game. In high-synergy shells like Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools // Thrasios, Triton Hero, where fetching a specific creature closes a combo line, that one-mana price tag is routinely the best thing you can do on your opponent's end step, and finding Conspicuous Snoop for a Goblin chain is a clean example of why the card earns its slot.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Tevesh Szat, Doom of FoolsThrasios, Triton Hero

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

52.4% of decks · synergy 0.43

Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools // Thrasios, Triton Hero runs a tight set of creature-based combo lines where fetching the exact missing piece at instant speed is often game over. Worldly Tutor's one-mana cost means it comes down before you pass the turn without telegraphing the line until it's too late to stop.

02
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy

Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy

56.3% of decks · synergy 0.42

Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy's gameplan bottlenecks on having the right mana sink or engine creature in hand, and Worldly Tutor resolves that problem for a single green mana. Finding Freed from the Real targets or top-end fatties on demand is exactly the kind of consistency Kinnan shells demand.

03

Etali, Primal Conqueror

52.0% of decks · synergy 0.39

Etali, Primal Conqueror is the card Etali decks want on top when they have a haste enabler ready, and Worldly Tutor sets that up cleanly. The instant speed matters here — you can tutor at the end of an opponent's turn, then immediately swing with Etali the following turn without giving anyone a draw step to find an answer.

05
Loot, the Pathfinder

Loot, the Pathfinder

37.8% of decks · synergy 0.23

Loot, the Pathfinder wants specific creatures at specific moments to trigger its adventuring mechanic efficiently, and Worldly Tutor turns a mediocre hand into the right creature right now. Showing up in nearly 38% of Loot lists reflects how much the deck values on-demand creature access over raw card advantage.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where Worldly Tutor earns every cent — singleton construction means finding one specific creature is often the difference between winning and not, and one mana at instant speed is an absurdly low ask for that effect. In Legacy, creature tutors are legal but the format moves fast enough that putting a card on top rather than into hand is a real liability, so Worldly Tutor sees fringe play at most. Vintage has it legal but better options and broken turn-one plays crowd it out. Oathbreaker is a natural home given the same singleton logic as Commander, especially when the signature spell slot is already occupied. The non-legality in Modern, Pioneer, and Standard is largely academic — Worldly Tutor is old enough that it was never in the card pool for those formats.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Green Sun's Zenith finds a green creature directly onto the battlefield rather than the top of your library, which is the stronger effect — it costs more mana than Worldly Tutor but eliminates the forced draw-step wait, and most budget builds under $10 treat it as a functional upgrade rather than a downgrade. If you need something closer to a dollar, Fierce Empath hits creatures with mana value six or greater for a single mana, and Shared Summons at two generic puts two creature cards into your hand outright — neither replaces the full flexibility of Worldly Tutor, but both solve the most common use case in big-creature and combo shells.

Price Context

Current price

$23.15 premium tier

At $23.15, Worldly Tutor sits in the premium tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate include, cheap enough that competitive Commander players don't think twice. The price is stable because demand is consistent across decades of Commander play rather than driven by any single spike, so it's unlikely to crater.

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