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Expressive Iteration

· Sorcery · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

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Times Brought

454

Decks Running

244

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Expressive Iteration

Sorcery

Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand, put one of them on the bottom of your library, and exile one of them. You may play the exiled card this turn.

Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Rimas Valeikis

Final zone distribution

120 instances

2.5%

Library

7.5%

Battlefield

63.3%

Graveyard

10.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

456 brought · 231 players

Brought to game

456

Ever drawn

113

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=77) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=260).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=19) — 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 +7.2pp; 95% confidence interval +1.2pp to +13.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=86

13%

10%

42%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 18

On curve 10% (4 / 86 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

86 of 100 times cast 86%

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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.