Live Play Data

Chain Reaction

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2485

Decks Running

1163

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=292

14%

59%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 20

On curve 9% (18 / 292 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

2488 brought · 983 players

Brought to game

2488

Ever drawn

541

Reached battlefield

292

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=256) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1647).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=218).

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 +7.1pp; 95% confidence interval +1.4pp to +12.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

592 instances

3.0%

Library

4.2%

Battlefield

50.5%

Graveyard

7.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 88 decks
2 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 84 decks
3 Smaug the Impenetrable 75 decks
4 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 59 decks
5 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel 54 decks
6 Atarka, World Render 41 decks
7 Kilo, Apogee Mind 41 decks
8 Krenko, Mob Boss 30 decks
9 Saheeli, Radiant Creator 27 decks
10 Firkraag, Cunning Instigator 18 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 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.