Live Play Data

Daydream

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

317

Decks Running

144

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=47

17%

21%

43%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 21

On curve 2% (1 / 47 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

317 brought · 131 players

Brought to game

317

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=44) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=195).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=32).

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 +13.7pp; 95% confidence interval -1.1pp to +28.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

90 instances

5.6%

Library

1.1%

Battlefield

45.6%

Graveyard

16.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Sentry, Golden Guardian 18 decks
2 Dack Fayden, Helping Hand 10 decks
3 Niko, Light of Hope 10 decks
4 Hei Bai, Forest Guardian 9 decks
5 Zidane, Tantalus Thief 8 decks
6 Mister Negative 5 decks
7 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 4 decks
8 Appa, Steadfast Guardian 3 decks
9 Celes, Rune Knight 3 decks
10 Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. 3 decks

Card text

Daydream

Sorcery

Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Flashback {2}

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Nia Kovalevski

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.