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Decorum Dissertation

· Sorcery — Lesson · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

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Times Brought

366

Decks Running

156

In Decks

829

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

102 instances

2.0%

Library

23.5%

Battlefield

18.6%

Graveyard

29.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 21 decks
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 6 decks
3 Silverquill, the Disputant 6 decks
4 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 5 decks
5 Witherbloom, the Balancer 5 decks
6 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 4 decks
7 Olinda the Oblivious 4 decks
8 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 3 decks
9 Prosper, Tome-Bound 3 decks
10 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

370 brought · 139 players

Brought to game

370

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +6.1pp

Players who cast this card win 49% of the time (n=45) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=227).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=29) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +20.0pp; 95% confidence interval +6.1pp to +33.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=49

22%

14%

47%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 43% (7 / 49 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

49 of 100 times cast 49%

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.