Worldly 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 creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.
Complete guide
Worldly Tutor is a staple green instant that provides unparalleled consistency for creature-heavy decks. For just one mana, it allows you to find the exact creature you need to answer a threat or win the game. Understanding its timing is crucial to ensuring you actually draw the card you searched for.
Top-Deck Searching
When you cast Worldly Tutor, you search your entire library for any creature card. Unlike some other search effects that put cards into your hand, this spell requires you to reveal the chosen card and then place it directly on top of your library after shuffling. This means the card will be your next natural draw unless another effect changes your library order.
Resolving the Search
As the spell resolves, you look through your library. Because you are searching for a specific card type (a creature), you are not legally required to find one, even if your library contains creatures. Once you select a card, you reveal it to all players. Then, you shuffle your library. Finally, the revealed card is placed on top of the newly shuffled library.
Common Mistakes
The most frequent error is forgetting that the card goes to the top of the library rather than into your hand. If you cast this during your main phase and have no way to draw an extra card, you must wait until your next turn to see that creature. Be wary of opponents using 'mill' effects or forced shuffle effects in response to your Tutor, as these can displace the card you just placed on top.
When to Play It
The optimal time to cast Worldly Tutor is usually during your opponent's end step. This ensures that the creature you search for stays safely on top of your library and becomes your draw for your upcoming turn. You can also cast it in response to a draw spell or ability to immediately put that creature into your hand.
Interaction examples
Heroic InterventionIf you suspect an opponent is about to wipe the board, you can use Worldly Tutor on their turn to find a creature with a powerful enters-the-battlefield ability. However, note that casting Heroic Intervention afterward does not help you get the creature faster; you still need a way to draw the card you put on top before you can cast it to protect your board.
Crop RotationSequence is vital here. If you cast Worldly Tutor and put a creature on top, then cast Crop Rotation, the search and shuffle from Crop Rotation will cause you to shuffle away the creature you just tutored for. Always ensure Worldly Tutor is the last 'search and shuffle' effect to resolve if you want that creature to remain on top.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Worldly 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.
Conspicuous Snoop + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Worldly Tutor
- 1Cast Worldly Tutor by paying
, putting Kiki-Jiki on top of your library. - 2Activate Conspicuous Snoop's ability from Kiki-Jiki, creating a token copy of Conspicuous Snoop.
- 3Activate the token Conspicuous Snoop's ability from Kiki-Jiki, creating a token copy of itself.
- 4Repeat the last step any number of times.
Deceiver of Form + Biovisionary + Worldly Tutor
- 1Cast Worldly Tutor by paying , causing you to search your library for Biovisionary, then shuffle your library and put Biovisionary on top of it.
- 2At the beginning of your combat phase, Deceiver of Form triggers, revealing Biovisionary from the top of your library and causing all other creatures you control to become copies of Biovisionary until end of turn.
- 3At the beginning of your end step, Deceiver of Form and each Biovisionary trigger.
- 4Resolve the first Biovisionary trigger, causing you to win the game.
Aspiring Champion + Blightsteel Colossus + Worldly Tutor + Maskwood Nexus
- 1Cast Worldly Tutor by paying , searching your library for Blightsteel Colossus and putting it on top of your library.
- 2Deal combat damage to an opponent using Aspiring Champion.
- 3Aspiring Champion triggers, causing you to sacrifice it, then reveal Blightsteel Colossus from the top of your library and put it onto the battlefield as a Demon due to Maskwood Nexus, then causing Blightsteel Colossus to give each opponent eleven poison counters.
- 4Each opponent loses the game as a state-based action due to having ten or more poison counters.
Aspiring Champion + Blightsteel Colossus + Worldly Tutor + Leyline of Transformation
- 1Cast Worldly Tutor by paying , searching your library for Blightsteel Colossus and putting it on top of your library.
- 2Deal combat damage to an opponent using Aspiring Champion.
- 3Aspiring Champion triggers, causing you to sacrifice it, then reveal Blightsteel Colossus from the top of your library and put it onto the battlefield as a Demon due to Leyline of Transformation, then causing Blightsteel Colossus to give each opponent eleven poison counters.
- 4Each opponent loses the game as a state-based action due to having ten or more poison counters.
Aspiring Champion + Blightsteel Colossus + Worldly Tutor + Rukarumel, Biologist
- 1Cast Worldly Tutor by paying , searching your library for Blightsteel Colossus and putting it on top of your library.
- 2Deal combat damage to an opponent using Aspiring Champion.
- 3Aspiring Champion triggers, causing you to sacrifice it, then reveal Blightsteel Colossus from the top of your library and put it onto the battlefield as a Demon due to Rukarumel, Biologist, then causing Blightsteel Colossus to give each opponent eleven poison counters.
- 4Each opponent loses the game as a state-based action due to having ten or more poison counters.
Aspiring Champion + Blightsteel Colossus + Worldly Tutor + Conspiracy
- 1Cast Worldly Tutor by paying , searching your library for Blightsteel Colossus and putting it on top of your library.
- 2Deal combat damage to an opponent using Aspiring Champion.
- 3Aspiring Champion triggers, causing you to sacrifice it, then reveal Blightsteel Colossus from the top of your library and put it onto the battlefield as a Demon due to Conspiracy, then causing Blightsteel Colossus to give each opponent eleven poison counters.
- 4Each opponent loses the game as a state-based action due to having ten or more poison counters.
Aspiring Champion + Blightsteel Colossus + Worldly Tutor + Arcane Adaptation
- 1Cast Worldly Tutor by paying , searching your library for Blightsteel Colossus and putting it on top of your library.
- 2Deal combat damage to an opponent using Aspiring Champion.
- 3Aspiring Champion triggers, causing you to sacrifice it, then reveal Blightsteel Colossus from the top of your library and put it onto the battlefield as a Demon due to Arcane Adaptation, then causing Blightsteel Colossus to give each opponent eleven poison counters.
- 4Each opponent loses the game as a state-based action due to having ten or more poison counters.
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