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· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

209

Decks Running

In Decks

539

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

55 instances

1.8%

Library

3.6%

Battlefield

49.1%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 4 decks
2 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One 3 decks
3 Alela, Cunning Conqueror 2 decks
4 Baral, Chief of Compliance 2 decks
5 Kenrith, the Returned King 2 decks
6 Phenax, God of Deception 2 decks
7 Prismari, the Inspiration 2 decks
8 Sauron, the Dark Lord 2 decks
9 Talrand, Sky Summoner 2 decks
10 Tam, Observant Sequencer // Deep Sight 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

209 brought · 76 players

Brought to game

209

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -23.3pp

Players who cast this card win 7% of the time (n=26) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=139).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=21) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap -12.3pp; 95% confidence interval -23.3pp to -1.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=27

19%

59%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 8 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 11

On curve 4% (1 / 27 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 11%

27 of 100 times cast 27%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 630,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.