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Part of Secrets of Strixhaven
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Instant
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Dominaria Remastered (DMR)
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Crop Rotation
4%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
509
Decks Running
255
In Decks
2643
Decklist Inclusion
4%
Format
Final zone distribution
139 instances5.8%
Library
1.4%
Battlefield
65.5%
Graveyard
4.3%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Hearthhull, the Worldseed
15 decks
-
2
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
8 decks
-
3
Flubs, the Fool
6 decks
-
4
Toph, the First Metalbender
6 decks
-
5
Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
5 decks
-
6
Child of Alara
5 decks
-
7
Sin, Spira's Punishment
5 decks
-
8
The Necrobloom
5 decks
-
9
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
5 decks
-
10
The Wandering Minstrel
5 decks
The "good card" funnel
509 brought · 214 playersBrought to game
509
Ever drawn
125
Reached battlefield
81
Still on board at game end
2
≥ +0.1pp
Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=81) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=351).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=44) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.
Observed gap +9.7pp; 95% confidence interval +0.1pp to +19.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=81
9%
T1
10%
T2
12%
T3
12%
T4
14%
T5
38%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median
5
P25
3
· P75
7
· max
11
On curve
9%
(7 / 81 cast on T1)
Cast same turn as drawn
38%
81 of 100 times cast
81%
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.