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Chart a Course

· Sorcery · Foundations (FDN)

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Times Brought

200

Decks Running

102

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

48 instances

4.2%

Library

68.8%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

20.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 21 decks
2 Sonic the Hedgehog 5 decks
3 Vnwxt, Verbose Host 5 decks
4 Edward Kenway 4 decks
5 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep 4 decks
6 Goro-Goro and Satoru 3 decks
7 Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar 3 decks
8 Alela, Artful Provocateur 2 decks
9 Captain Howler, Sea Scourge 2 decks
10 Namor the Sub-Mariner 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

200 brought · 96 players

Brought to game

200

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -13.8pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=30) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=124).

Observed gap -3.9pp; 95% confidence interval -13.8pp to +6.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=33

18%

12%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 12% (3 / 33 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

33 of 100 times cast 33%

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.