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Ajani's Response

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

101

Decks Running

In Decks

116

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Ajani's Response

Instant

This spell costs {3}

less to cast if it targets a tapped creature. Destroy target creature.

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Common · Illustrated by April Prime

Final zone distribution

27 instances

7.4%

Battlefield

74.1%

Graveyard

3.7%

Exile

14.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Codie, Vociferous Codex 3 decks
2 King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring 3 decks
3 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 3 decks
4 Marisi, Breaker of the Coil 2 decks
5 The First Sliver 2 decks
6 Aerith, Last Ancient 1 decks
7 Ajani, Nacatl Pariah // Ajani, Nacatl Avenger 1 decks
8 Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad 1 decks
9 Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon 1 decks
10 Arahbo, Roar of the World 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

101 brought · 39 players

Brought to game

101

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -10.7pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=17) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=65).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +12.7pp; 95% confidence interval -10.7pp to +36.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.