Live Play Data

Animist's Awakening

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1296

Decks Running

542

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=173

14%

25%

47%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 19

Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

1296 brought · 502 players

Brought to game

1296

Ever drawn

295

Reached battlefield

173

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.8pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=169) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=896).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=119).

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 +6.0pp; 95% confidence interval -0.8pp to +12.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

332 instances

4.2%

Library

2.1%

Battlefield

57.5%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Animist's Awakening

Sorcery

Reveal the top X cards of your library. Put all land cards from among them onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, untap those lands.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Chris Rahn

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.