Personal Tutor is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Search your library for a sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
Complete guide
Personal Tutor is a classic blue sorcery that allows you to set up your next draw with surgical precision. By searching your library for any sorcery, you ensure that the exact spell you need is waiting for you at the top of your deck.
What it Does
Personal Tutor allows you to search your entire library for a single sorcery card. Unlike many tutors that put the card directly into your hand, this one places it on top of your library after you reveal it to your opponents and shuffle the rest of your deck.
Resolving Step by Step
When you cast Personal Tutor, you first search your library for a sorcery card. After choosing one, you must reveal it to all players. Then, you shuffle your library. Finally, you place the revealed sorcery card on top of your library. Because the search specifies a card type, you are not legally required to find a card even if one exists in your library.
Common Mistakes
The most common error is forgetting that the card goes on top of the library, not into your hand. Additionally, players sometimes forget to shuffle before placing the card on top; the shuffle happens first, ensuring the chosen card remains the very first thing you draw.
When to Play It
This card is best used during your main phase when you have a way to draw the card immediately or when you are preparing for a powerful following turn. It is an excellent tool for finding board wipes, extra turn spells, or powerful card-draw sorceries.
Interaction examples
PonderYou cast Personal Tutor to find Ponder and place it on top of your library. On your next turn, you draw and cast Ponder, allowing you to look at the top three cards of your library and further refine your future draws.
PreordainCast Personal Tutor to place Preordain on top of your deck. Once you draw and cast Preordain, you can Scry 2 to dig even deeper for other non-sorcery pieces you might need, then draw the next card immediately.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Personal Tutor
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Because the “search” requires you to find a card with certain characteristics, you don’t have to find the card if you don’t want to.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Approach of the Second Sun + Personal Tutor
- 1Cast Approach of the Second Sun by paying
, causing you to gain 7 life and put Approach of the Second Sun into your library seventh from the top. - 2Cast Personal Tutor by paying
, searching your library for Approach of the Second Sun and putting it on top of your library. - 3Draw Approach of the Second Sun from your library.
- 4Cast Approach of the Second Sun by paying , causing you to win the game.
Seasons Past + Temporal Manipulation + Personal Tutor
- 1Cast Temporal Manipulation by paying its mana cost, causing you to take an extra turn after this one
- 2Cast Seasons Past by paying
, returning Personal Tutor and Temporal Manipulation from your graveyard to your hand and putting Seasons Past onto the bottom of your library. - 3Cast Personal Tutor by paying its mana cost, searching your library for Seasons Past and putting it on top of your library.
- 4Move to your next turn, drawing Seasons Past from your library.
- 5Repeat.
Seasons Past + Personal Tutor + Time Warp
- 1Cast Time Warp by paying its mana cost, causing you to take an extra turn after this one
- 2Cast Seasons Past by paying , returning Personal Tutor and Time Warp from your graveyard to your hand and putting Seasons Past onto the bottom of your library.
- 3Cast Personal Tutor by paying its mana cost, searching your library for Seasons Past and putting it on top of your library.
- 4Move to your next turn, drawing Seasons Past from your library.
- 5Repeat.
Seasons Past + Capture of Jingzhou + Personal Tutor
- 1Cast Capture of Jingzhou by paying its mana cost, causing you to take an extra turn after this one
- 2Cast Seasons Past by paying , returning Personal Tutor and Capture of Jingzhou from your graveyard to your hand and putting Seasons Past onto the bottom of your library.
- 3Cast Personal Tutor by paying its mana cost, searching your library for Seasons Past and putting it on top of your library.
- 4Move to your next turn, drawing Seasons Past from your library.
- 5Repeat.
Seasons Past + Personal Tutor + Walk the Aeons
- 1Cast Walk the Aeons by paying its mana cost, causing you to take an extra turn after this one
- 2Cast Seasons Past by paying , returning Personal Tutor and Walk the Aeons from your graveyard to your hand and putting Seasons Past onto the bottom of your library.
- 3Cast Personal Tutor by paying its mana cost, searching your library for Seasons Past and putting it on top of your library.
- 4Move to your next turn, drawing Seasons Past from your library.
- 5Repeat.
Seasons Past + Personal Tutor + Time Walk
- 1Cast Time Walk by paying its mana cost, causing you to take an extra turn after this one
- 2Cast Seasons Past by paying , returning Personal Tutor and Time Walk from your graveyard to your hand and putting Seasons Past onto the bottom of your library.
- 3Cast Personal Tutor by paying its mana cost, searching your library for Seasons Past and putting it on top of your library.
- 4Move to your next turn, drawing Seasons Past from your library.
- 5Repeat.
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