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{R} · Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Buy on TCGplayer
Times Brought
489
Decks Running
252
In Decks
1369
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1
Card text
Flashback card

Flashback

{R}
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

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

The "good card" funnel

490 brought · 216 players
Brought to game
490
Ever drawn
121
Reached battlefield
81
Still on board at game end
8
≥ -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) — 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 +2.0pp; 95% confidence interval -8.3pp to +12.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=81
2%
T1
1%
T2
5%
T3
6%
T4
10%
T5
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%
81 of 100 times cast 81%

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.