Live Play Data

Decorum Dissertation

· Sorcery — Lesson · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1462

Decks Running

540

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=201

13%

17%

54%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 33% (34 / 201 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

1466 brought · 465 players

Brought to game

1466

Ever drawn

343

Reached battlefield

201

Still on board at game end

100

≥ +4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=196) , vs 32% when it never left the library (n=990).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=130).

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 +11.7pp; 95% confidence interval +4.7pp to +18.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

398 instances

2.0%

Library

25.1%

Battlefield

18.8%

Graveyard

26.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 66 decks
2 Witherbloom, the Balancer 21 decks
3 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 18 decks
4 Silverquill, the Disputant 15 decks
5 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 11 decks
6 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 11 decks
7 The Lord of Pain 11 decks
8 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 10 decks
9 Fire Lord Zuko 10 decks
10 Lord of the Nazgûl 10 decks

Card text

Decorum Dissertation

Sorcery — Lesson

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life. Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Mythic · Illustrated by Mila Pesic

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.