Live Play Data

Decorum Dissertation

· Sorcery — Lesson · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1234

Decks Running

459

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=168

17%

15%

54%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 37% (26 / 168 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

1238 brought · 390 players

Brought to game

1238

Ever drawn

291

Reached battlefield

168

Still on board at game end

≥ +5.7pp

Players who cast this card win 46% of the time (n=151) , vs 32% when it never left the library (n=807).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=109).

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 +13.8pp; 95% confidence interval +5.7pp to +21.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

344 instances

2.0%

Library

24.1%

Battlefield

18.3%

Graveyard

27.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 57 decks
2 Witherbloom, the Balancer 18 decks
3 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 17 decks
4 Silverquill, the Disputant 15 decks
5 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 11 decks
6 Fire Lord Zuko 10 decks
7 Lord of the Nazgûl 9 decks
8 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 8 decks
9 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 8 decks
10 Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar 7 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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.