Live Play Data

Borrowed Knowledge

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

148

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

53%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=20

10%

15%

60%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 10% (2 / 20 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 10%

The "good card" funnel

149 brought · 69 players

Brought to game

149

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.8pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=20) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=96).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 50% (n=18).

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 +13.3pp; 95% confidence interval -6.8pp to +33.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

42 instances

2.4%

Battlefield

61.9%

Graveyard

14.3%

Exile

21.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lorehold, the Historian 12 decks
2 General Ferrous Rokiric 8 decks
3 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 4 decks
4 Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad 3 decks
5 Gandalf, Party Guest 2 decks
6 Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader 2 decks
7 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury 2 decks
8 Quintorius, Loremaster 2 decks
9 Sami, Wildcat Captain 2 decks
10 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 2 decks

Card text

Borrowed Knowledge

Sorcery

Choose one — • Discard your hand, then draw cards equal to the number of cards in target opponent's hand. • Discard your hand, then draw cards equal to the number of cards discarded this way.

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Inkognit

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.