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Live Play Data

Embrace the Unknown

{2} {R} · Sorcery · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)
0%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
197
Decks Running
91
Median Cast Turn
6.5
Drawn → Played
67%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=42
0%
T1
2%
T2
10%
T3
14%
T4
10%
T5
48%
T6-9
17%
T10+
Median 6.5 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 16
On curve 12% (4 / 42 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

197 brought · 90 players
Brought to game
197
Ever drawn
63
Reached battlefield
42
Still on board at game end
2
≥ +5.0pp

Players who cast this card win 45% of the time (n=37) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=116).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=21).

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 +22.2pp; 95% confidence interval +5.0pp to +39.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

69 instances
10.1%
Library
2.9%
Battlefield
65.2%
Graveyard
5.8%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Embrace the Unknown card

Embrace the Unknown

{2} {R}
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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.