Live Play Data

Dig Through Time

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

Buy on TCGplayer

Times Brought

2357

Decks Running

1083

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=321

11%

64%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 19

On curve 66% (52 / 321 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

2360 brought · 938 players

Brought to game

2360

Ever drawn

598

Reached battlefield

321

Still on board at game end

≥ +9.6pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=295) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1455).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=244).

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 +15.1pp; 95% confidence interval +9.6pp to +20.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

668 instances

5.5%

Library

4.5%

Battlefield

51.9%

Graveyard

10.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 283 decks
2 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 119 decks
3 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 55 decks
4 Ovika, Enigma Goliath 25 decks
5 Zimone, Mystery Unraveler 24 decks
6 Quandrix, the Proof 22 decks
7 Stella Lee, Wild Card 19 decks
8 Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor 18 decks
9 Vivi Ornitier 17 decks
10 Whtz, the Bibliophile 17 decks

Card text

Dig Through Time

Instant

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}

.) Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Ryan Yee

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.