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Careful Study
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Sorcery
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Odyssey (ODY)
Times Brought
121
Decks Running
52
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format
Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.
Card text
Careful Study
Sorcery
Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Odyssey (ODY)
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Common
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Illustrated by Scott M. Fischer
Final zone distribution
32 instances6.3%
Battlefield
56.3%
Graveyard
21.9%
Exile
15.6%
Hand
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
5 decks
-
2
Norman Osborn // Green Goblin
4 decks
-
3
Vivi Ornitier
3 decks
-
4
Aminatou, the Fateshifter
2 decks
-
5
Captain Howler, Sea Scourge
2 decks
-
6
Iroh, Grand Lotus
2 decks
-
7
Sefris of the Hidden Ways
2 decks
-
8
Vnwxt, Verbose Host
2 decks
-
9
Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
1 decks
-
10
Aragorn, the Uniter
1 decks
The "good card" funnel
121 brought · 51 playersBrought to game
121
Ever drawn
30
Reached battlefield
24
Still on board at game end
2
≥ -10.7pp
Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=20) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=62).
Observed gap +1.9pp; 95% confidence interval -10.7pp to +14.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=24
13%
T1
8%
T2
17%
T3
8%
T4
8%
T5
29%
T6-9
17%
T10+
Median
5.0
P25
3
· P75
6
· max
12
On curve
13%
(3 / 24 cast on T1)
Cast same turn as drawn
43%
24 of 100 times cast
24%
Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.
Frequently Asked
Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.