Live Play Data

Flashback

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1369

Decks Running

633

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=227

16%

56%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 1% (3 / 227 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

1371 brought · 527 players

Brought to game

1371

Ever drawn

365

Reached battlefield

227

Still on board at game end

≥ +5.4pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=208) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=828).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=122).

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 +12.1pp; 95% confidence interval +5.4pp to +18.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

407 instances

4.2%

Library

6.4%

Battlefield

52.6%

Graveyard

11.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 48 decks
2 Fire Lord Azula 45 decks
3 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 44 decks
4 Prismari, the Inspiration 25 decks
5 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 14 decks
6 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 12 decks
7 Smaug the Impenetrable 12 decks
8 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 11 decks
9 Gandalf, Party Guest 10 decks
10 Thor, God of Thunder 10 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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.