All 20 Legendary Tutors in Magic Ranked

Captain Sisay | Illustration by Ray Lago

Tutors are Magic’s most effective tools to make your deck consistent. They thin out your library and improve your draws since a good tutor grabs the card you need when you need it.

There are tutors for almost every card type and subtype, including legendary permanents. Whether you build a good-stuff deck around legendary creatures or a Voltron deck around legendary artifacts and equipment, these are all the cards that can specifically grab legendary cards out of your library.

What Are Legendary Tutors in MTG?

Thalia's Lancers | Illustration by David Palumbo

Legendary tutors are cards that pull legendary cards out of your library and put them onto the battlefield or into your hand. Some of these cards grab any legendary card, while others grab only specific card types. For the sake of completeness, I’ll include both cards that let you search your entire library and cards that filter the top X cards.

I won’t include general tutors that grab any card, like Demonic Tutor, or cards that recur legends from your graveyard to your hand or reanimate them to the battlefield.

Honorable Mention: Gallery of Legends

You have to bend yourself into a bit of a pretzel to count Gallery of Legends as a legendary tutor. It’s one of the most flexible though, since you can name any legendary creature that matches the exiled card’s mana value. If you play this in your attraction deck, please come equipped with a shortlist of legends you want to copy.

Honorable Mention: Historic Filters

Every square is a rectangle, but not every rectangle is a square, just like all legendary cards are historic, but not all historic cards are legendary. For that reason, I’ll mention a trio of cards that filter the top of your library for historic cards here: Weatherlight, Board the Weatherlight, and Monumental Henge.

#20. Lifespinner

Lifespinner is among the weaker legendary tutors because it only grabs legendary spirits. Merci, prochain.

#19. Templar Knight

Relentless cards let you play any number of copies of them in your deck. They’re fun, and they encourage interesting play styles, though it feels like Wizards shoehorns them in any chance they get lately. 2024-2025 alone saw the introduction of Slime Against Humanity, Templar Knight, Hare Apparent, Tempest Hawk, and Cid, Timeless Artificer.

I like the idea of multiple Templar Knights to build a Voltron/knight typal deck, and there’re plenty of options like Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale, Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir, and Haytham Kenway. But yeah, it only tutors for legendary artifacts if you have enough Templar Knights on the field, and they’re all attacking.

#18. Nashi, Searcher in the Dark

The mill/recursion combo that Nashi, Searcher in the Dark offers is more of a filter ability than anything else. This rat also grows if you don’t bring anything back, which means you can potentially mill yourself more the next time it deals damage.

#17. The Day of the Doctor

The Day of the Doctor is primarily used to tutor for legends in a Doctor deck built around time lords from Doctor Who. Those decks often use proliferation, which can let you accelerate your tutoring past what a saga would usually give you. I guess you can ignore the last chapter if you purely want to use it as a tutor, but why would you pass up the one-sided board wipe?

A shoutout to The Eleventh Hour, another doctor tutor, because the only nonlegendary doctor as of late 2025 is Cult Healer.

#16. Acclaimed Contender

Acclaimed Contender filters the top of your library for knights, auras, equipment, and yes, legends, but only if they’re artifacts. It’s used most often in knight or Voltron decks.

#15. Thalia’s Lancers

Thalia's Lancers tutors any legendary card out of your library and leaves behind a decent body for a compact 5 mana. Bruna, the Fading Light and Gisela, the Broken Blade decks can use it to tutor for the other half of the meld pairing.

#14. Kolvori, God of Kinship / The Ringhart Crest

With an activated ability that filters the top of your deck for legends and a backside that can be a typal or legends-matter mana rock, Kolvori, God of Kinship / The Ringhart Crest offers two faces of utility packed into one card. Its natural home is in god decks, of course.

#13. The Seriema

The Seriema searches your whole library when it enters, and it doubles as a protective creature once you’ve fully stationed it. I like it in a Peter Parker deck, since Amazing Spider-Man can give it a web-slinging cost that’s still 3 mana but less intensive on white, and you can tap creatures to station this spacecraft to pay for other web-slinging costs later.

#12. Captain Sisay

What would you call this ability? A “legend dork”? Summoning sickness slows Captain Sisay down a little, and the tap requirement generally limits its activations to once per turn. Part of its placement also comes from how tough it is to get your hands on a copy. Invasion was a quarter century ago, and Captain Sisay’s only reprints come from weird products like Secret Lairs, From the Vault: Legends, and Mystery Booster 2.

#11. Djeru and Hazoret

Djeru and Hazoret’s attack trigger makes it one of the more aggressive and repeatable legendary tutors available. It’s a good card to consider in your Jodah, the Unifier and Dihada, Binder of Wills decks, and it plays well in god typal builds to cheat out expensive creatures.

#10. Search for Dagger

Search for Dagger is one of the most repeatable tutors since it triggers when your commander enters or attacks. You only filter the top six cards of your deck rather than search your whole library, but that’s fine (and it also prevents you from constantly shuffling your library). Its trigger works well with cheap commanders that you’ll cast multiple times, aggressive commanders that attack often, or with commanders that you want to flicker for value. Plus, you can double the trigger with Isshin, Two Heavens as One.

#9. Kamahl’s Druidic Vow

As a legendary sorcery that brings cards directly from your library onto the battlefield, you can hardly ask for better than Kamahl's Druidic Vow. The fact that it’s also a legend means you can exile it as part of Kethis, the Hidden Hand’s ability to play other legends (including lands) from your graveyard.

#8. Time of Need

Time of Need is a legendary tutor with the same timing and mana value as a Farseek, so it’s cheap and steady.

#7. Search for Glory

Search for Glory grabs legends, sagas, and snow permanents for a neat and tidy 3 mana. You can run it in any decks built around those themes, and it encourages you to play snow basics and the fetchable Kaldheim snow duals so that you can get that extra lifegain out of it. One of its advantages is that it grabs any legendary card, including legendary lands and legendary sorceries.

#6. War of the Last Alliance

This saga tutors for two legendary creatures if it sticks around, or more if you can manipulate the number of lore counters it has. With the right combination, War of the Last Alliance can tutor for all your legendary support pieces.

#5. Turtles Forever

Turtles Forever frustrates me. The design is fun and flavorful for a TMNT deck, but the hater in me wouldn’t want to see an opponent who isn’t playing any turtles cast this. Don’t get me wrong, it’s good. But cards that search outside the game usually have acorns on them, or they’re just plain old.

#4. Dihada, Binder of Wills

Your opponents can’t let Dihada, Binder of Wills live for too long, else they’ll have to contend with that ultimate ability. We care about the -3 that filters the top of your library for legends, or that mills them if your name is Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, which is more repeatable than an instant but slower that either Sisay card, Jodah, or Heroes’ Podium.

#3. Sisay, Weatherlight Captain

Depending on your board state, you can pay to tutor for a legendary permanent with a MV of up to 7. There are many superb cards you can grab for that amount, so Sisay, Weatherlight Captain is good both as a commander and in the 99.

#2. Heroes’ Podium

As both a legendary anthem and a reusable way to filter for legendary creatures, Heroes' Podium is a staple of legends-matter decks for a reason. It also helps that it’s a colorless card, so you can slot it in anywhere.

#1. Jodah, the Unifier

This shouldn’t be a surprise. Jodah, the Unifier basically gives your legendary spells cascade, which is especially good when you have a deck filled with legendary permanents that cost a lot of mana. As a scaling legend lord, it’s one of the best and most versatile commanders for any legendary creature theme you want. Any Commander bracket, any budget, Jodah’s got you covered.

Wrap Up

Search for Glory | Illustration by Kieran Yanner

Every deck needs consistency, and these cards can all help to pull resources from your library. As more sets print legendary creatures (especially Universes Beyond sets), legendary tutors could continue to grow in importance, especially with commanders like Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Cosmic Spider-Man, and Heroes in a Half Shell that allow you to run all your favorite legends together, not to mention more classic legend commanders like Jodah, the Unifier.

Which legendary tutors do you run? Do you use them, or tutors that don’t care about legends like Worldly Tutor, Demonic Tutor, and Steelshaper's Gift instead? Let me know in the comments below or over on the Draftsim Discord.

Until next time, stay safe!