Live Play Data

Dance with Calamity

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

348

Decks Running

175

Median Cast Turn

6.5

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=50

16%

56%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 74% (7 / 50 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

The "good card" funnel

349 brought · 160 players

Brought to game

349

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.2pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=49) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=210).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=36).

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 +9.0pp; 95% confidence interval -5.2pp to +23.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

109 instances

4.6%

Library

1.8%

Battlefield

43.1%

Graveyard

21.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 67 decks
2 Lorehold, the Historian 14 decks
3 Codie, Vociferous Codex 5 decks
4 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 5 decks
5 Prismari, the Inspiration 4 decks
6 Prosper, Tome-Bound 4 decks
7 Alania, Divergent Storm 3 decks
8 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 3 decks
9 Itazura, Lingering Wick 3 decks
10 Cormela, Glamour Thief 2 decks

Card text

Dance with Calamity

Sorcery

Shuffle your library. As many times as you choose, you may exile the top card of your library. If the total mana value of the cards exiled this way is 13 or less, you may cast any number of spells from among those cards without paying their mana costs.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Fajareka Setiawan

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.