Live Play Data

Combat Calligrapher

· Creature — Bird Cleric · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

484

Decks Running

223

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

53%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=71

14%

13%

42%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 28% (10 / 71 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

484 brought · 220 players

Brought to game

484

Ever drawn

133

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 45% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +6.1pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=66) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=292).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=59).

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 +18.7pp; 95% confidence interval +6.1pp to +31.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

145 instances

3.4%

Library

22.1%

Battlefield

35.9%

Graveyard

4.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Killian, Decisive Mentor 93 decks
2 Breena, the Demagogue 24 decks
3 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor 18 decks
4 Shadrix Silverquill 13 decks
5 Gluntch, the Bestower 7 decks
6 Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed 6 decks
7 Scriv, the Obligator 6 decks
8 Vislor Turlough 6 decks
9 Marisi, Breaker of the Coil 5 decks
10 Queen Marchesa 5 decks

Card text

Combat Calligrapher

Creature — Bird Cleric

Flying Inklings can't attack you or planeswalkers you control. Whenever a player attacks one of your opponents, that attacking player creates a tapped 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying that's attacking that opponent.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Joseph Weston

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.