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Dance with Calamity

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

114

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

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

Final zone distribution

32 instances

6.3%

Library

34.4%

Battlefield

34.4%

Graveyard

9.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 41 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 3 decks
3 Lorehold, the Historian 3 decks
4 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable 2 decks
5 Gandalf, Party Guest 2 decks
6 Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy 2 decks
7 Prosper, Tome-Bound 2 decks
8 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 1 decks
9 Bohn, Beguiling Balladeer 1 decks
10 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

114 brought · 70 players

Brought to game

114

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.9pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=17) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=62).

Observed gap +4.3pp; 95% confidence interval -8.9pp to +17.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=20

10%

70%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 80% (3 / 20 cast on T8)

20 of 100 times cast 20%

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.