Live Play Data

Dina's Guidance

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

749

Decks Running

303

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=112

10%

13%

14%

51%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 14% (11 / 112 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

749 brought · 273 players

Brought to game

749

Ever drawn

175

Reached battlefield

112

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.9pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=103) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=465).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=57).

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 +7.3pp; 95% confidence interval -1.9pp to +16.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

201 instances

3.5%

Library

2.5%

Battlefield

63.2%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Thranduil, the Elvenking 47 decks
2 Blech, Loafing Pest 25 decks
3 Dina, Essence Brewer 16 decks
4 Dina, Soul Steeper 12 decks
5 Witherbloom, the Balancer 12 decks
6 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 11 decks
7 Teval, the Balanced Scale 10 decks
8 High Perfect Morcant 8 decks
9 The Beamtown Bullies 8 decks
10 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 7 decks

Card text

Dina's Guidance

Instant

Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand or graveyard, then shuffle.

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Rare · Illustrated by Manuel Castañón

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.