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Circuitous Route

· Sorcery · Foundations (FDN)

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Times Brought

218

Decks Running

105

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

Circuitous Route

Sorcery

Search your library for up to two basic land cards and/or Gate cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Foundations (FDN) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Milivoj Ćeran

Final zone distribution

45 instances

2.2%

Library

2.2%

Battlefield

73.3%

Graveyard

2.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Child of Alara 9 decks
2 Go-Shintai of Life's Origin 6 decks
3 Nine-Fingers Keene 5 decks
4 Codie, Vociferous Codex 4 decks
5 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 4 decks
6 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 4 decks
7 Progenitus 4 decks
8 Ruby, Daring Tracker 4 decks
9 Tifa Lockhart 4 decks
10 Fynn, the Fangbearer 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

218 brought · 99 players

Brought to game

218

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.0pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=28) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=145).

Observed gap +5.7pp; 95% confidence interval -4.0pp to +15.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=31

23%

19%

13%

29%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 48% (6 / 31 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

31 of 100 times cast 31%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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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.