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Decorum Dissertation

· Sorcery — Lesson · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

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Times Brought

479

Decks Running

266

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

126 instances

2.4%

Library

25.4%

Battlefield

19.8%

Graveyard

23.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 36 decks
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 13 decks
3 Witherbloom, the Balancer 12 decks
4 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 8 decks
5 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 7 decks
6 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 7 decks
7 Blech, Loafing Pest 6 decks
8 Lord of the Nazgûl 6 decks
9 Silverquill, the Disputant 6 decks
10 Fire Lord Zuko 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

481 brought · 240 players

Brought to game

481

Ever drawn

112

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.8pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=51) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=265).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=35).

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 +1.7pp; 95% confidence interval -5.8pp to +9.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=62

10%

18%

53%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 37% (4 / 62 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

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.