Live Play Data

Flashback

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

489

Decks Running

252

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=81

10%

59%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 6 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 2% (2 / 81 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

490 brought · 216 players

Brought to game

490

Ever drawn

121

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.3pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=72) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=314).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=34).

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 +2.0pp; 95% confidence interval -8.3pp to +12.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

130 instances

5.4%

Library

6.2%

Battlefield

52.3%

Graveyard

14.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 20 decks
2 Fire Lord Azula 18 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 15 decks
4 Prismari, the Inspiration 14 decks
5 Thor, God of Thunder 7 decks
6 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 6 decks
7 Aziza, Mage Tower Captain 5 decks
8 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 5 decks
9 Zada, Hedron Grinder 5 decks
10 Alania, Divergent Storm 4 decks

Card text

Flashback

Instant

Target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Rare · Illustrated by Flavio Greco Paglia

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.