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Creative Technique

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

216

Decks Running

119

In Decks

655

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Creative Technique

Sorcery

Demonstrate (When you cast this spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it.) Shuffle your library, then reveal cards from the top of it until you reveal a nonland card. Exile that card and put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Gaboleps

Final zone distribution

48 instances

2.1%

Library

6.3%

Battlefield

68.8%

Graveyard

16.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 49 decks
2 Lorehold, the Historian 9 decks
3 Codie, Vociferous Codex 6 decks
4 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 5 decks
5 Maelstrom Wanderer 3 decks
6 Prosper, Tome-Bound 3 decks
7 Radha, Heir to Keld 3 decks
8 The Lord of Pain 3 decks
9 Etali, Primal Storm 2 decks
10 Keruga, the Macrosage 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

217 brought · 106 players

Brought to game

217

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -14.2pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=29) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=152).

Observed gap +2.3pp; 95% confidence interval -14.2pp to +18.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=32

25%

44%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 41% (8 / 32 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

32 of 100 times cast 32%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.