Live Play Data

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· Sorcery · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

513

Decks Running

263

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=83

14%

17%

11%

43%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 7% (4 / 83 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

513 brought · 247 players

Brought to game

513

Ever drawn

127

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.3pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=76) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=329).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=39).

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 +7.4pp; 95% confidence interval -2.3pp to +17.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

140 instances

4.3%

Library

2.1%

Battlefield

68.6%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 50 decks
2 Sonic the Hedgehog 11 decks
3 Octavia, Living Thesis 8 decks
4 Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar 7 decks
5 Captain Howler, Sea Scourge 6 decks
6 Edward Kenway 5 decks
7 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep 5 decks
8 The Mindskinner 5 decks
9 Vnwxt, Verbose Host 5 decks
10 Bria, Riptide Rogue 4 decks

Card text

Chart a Course

Sorcery

Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless you attacked this turn.

Foundations (FDN) · Uncommon · Illustrated by James Ryman

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.