Live Play Data

Embrace the Unknown

· Sorcery · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

151

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=29

10%

14%

10%

48%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 14% (3 / 29 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 50%

The "good card" funnel

151 brought · 67 players

Brought to game

151

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +9.8pp

Players who cast this card win 51% of the time (n=25) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=92).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=17).

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 +30.1pp; 95% confidence interval +9.8pp to +50.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

52 instances

9.6%

Library

3.8%

Battlefield

63.5%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Embrace the Unknown

Sorcery

Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Quintin Gleim

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.