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· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

294

Decks Running

134

In Decks

645

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Expansion Algorithm

Sorcery

Proliferate X times. (To proliferate, choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Serena Malyon

Final zone distribution

73 instances

5.5%

Library

4.1%

Battlefield

49.3%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 83 decks
2 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 16 decks
3 Kratos, Stoic Father 4 decks
4 Berta, Wise Extrapolator 3 decks
5 Primo, the Unbounded 3 decks
6 Zimone, Paradox Sculptor 3 decks
7 Falco Spara, Pactweaver 2 decks
8 Kilo, Apogee Mind 2 decks
9 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 2 decks
10 The Wise Mothman 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

294 brought · 125 players

Brought to game

294

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -13.7pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=27) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=188).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=28) — 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 +2.2pp; 95% confidence interval -13.7pp to +18.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=32

13%

66%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 37%

32 of 100 times cast 32%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.