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Part of Secrets of Strixhaven
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Instant
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Dominaria Remastered (DMR)
Live Play Data
Crop Rotation
8%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
4699
Decks Running
2024
Median Cast Turn
5.0
Drawn → Played
63%
Format
First-cast turn
n=708
7%
T1
12%
T2
13%
T3
15%
T4
15%
T5
34%
T6-9
5%
T10+
Median
5.0
P25
3
· P75
7
· max
17
On curve
7%
(48 / 708 cast on T1)
Cast same turn as drawn
41%
The "good card" funnel
4701 brought · 1458 playersBrought to game
4701
Ever drawn
1121
Reached battlefield
708
Still on board at game end
19
≥ +4.1pp
Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=646) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=2909).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=361).
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 +7.8pp; 95% confidence interval +4.1pp to +11.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
1303 instances3.8%
Library
1.5%
Battlefield
64.0%
Graveyard
7.4%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Hearthhull, the Worldseed
89 decks
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2
Toph, the First Metalbender
86 decks
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3
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
47 decks
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4
Flubs, the Fool
43 decks
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5
Tifa Lockhart
41 decks
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6
Homer, the Hermit
40 decks
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7
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
38 decks
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8
Omnath, Locus of Creation
36 decks
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9
Teval, the Balanced Scale
36 decks
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10
Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
35 decks
Card text
Crop Rotation
Instant
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Dominaria Remastered (DMR)
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Uncommon
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Illustrated by DiTerlizzi
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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.