Live Play Data

Deadly Brew

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

649

Decks Running

325

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=110

14%

51%

T6-9

28%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 16

On curve 2% (2 / 110 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

649 brought · 308 players

Brought to game

649

Ever drawn

161

Reached battlefield

110

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.1pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=108) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=438).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=50).

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 +10.9pp; 95% confidence interval +2.1pp to +19.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

175 instances

0.6%

Library

1.1%

Battlefield

64.6%

Graveyard

11.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Deadly Brew

Sorcery

Each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. If you sacrificed a permanent this way, you may return another permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Randy Vargas

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.