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Decorum Dissertation

· Sorcery — Lesson · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

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Times Brought

193

Decks Running

103

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

52 instances

3.8%

Library

26.9%

Battlefield

25.0%

Graveyard

23.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 15 decks
2 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 6 decks
3 Witherbloom, the Balancer 6 decks
4 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 5 decks
5 Blech, Loafing Pest 4 decks
6 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 4 decks
7 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 3 decks
8 Ardyn, the Usurper 2 decks
9 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 2 decks
10 Dina, Soul Steeper 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

195 brought · 94 players

Brought to game

195

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -7.9pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=24) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=110).

Observed gap +3.2pp; 95% confidence interval -7.9pp to +14.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=30

10%

20%

47%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 37% (0 / 30 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

30 of 100 times cast 30%

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

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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.