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Creative Technique

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

131

Decks Running

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

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

36 instances

8.3%

Battlefield

50.0%

Graveyard

5.6%

Exile

36.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 37 decks
2 Zaffai, Thunder Conductor 4 decks
3 Lorehold, the Historian 3 decks
4 Brothers Yamazaki 2 decks
5 Maelstrom Wanderer 2 decks
6 Prismari, the Inspiration 2 decks
7 Radha, Heir to Keld 2 decks
8 Veyran, Voice of Duality 2 decks
9 Alania, Divergent Storm 1 decks
10 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

131 brought · 66 players

Brought to game

131

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

17 of 100 times cast 17%

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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.