Live Play Data

Chain Reaction

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3421

Decks Running

1527

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=396

15%

57%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 20

On curve 9% (26 / 396 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

3424 brought · 1280 players

Brought to game

3424

Ever drawn

736

Reached battlefield

396

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=355) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=2247).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=302).

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 +5.1pp; 95% confidence interval +0.3pp to +9.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

813 instances

2.7%

Library

4.1%

Battlefield

51.9%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 155 decks
2 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 110 decks
3 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 97 decks
4 Smaug the Impenetrable 94 decks
5 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel 67 decks
6 Atarka, World Render 54 decks
7 Kilo, Apogee Mind 48 decks
8 Saheeli, Radiant Creator 36 decks
9 Krenko, Mob Boss 33 decks
10 Firkraag, Cunning Instigator 24 decks

Card text

Chain Reaction

Sorcery

Chain Reaction deals X damage to each creature, where X is the number of creatures on the battlefield.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Gustavo Pelissari

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.