Live Play Data

Flashback

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1803

Decks Running

811

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=290

17%

56%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 2% (5 / 290 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

1805 brought · 670 players

Brought to game

1805

Ever drawn

471

Reached battlefield

290

Still on board at game end

≥ +4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=267) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=1103).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=157).

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 +10.7pp; 95% confidence interval +4.7pp to +16.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

523 instances

4.4%

Library

7.1%

Battlefield

50.1%

Graveyard

13.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Fire Lord Azula 60 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 60 decks
3 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 56 decks
4 Prismari, the Inspiration 29 decks
5 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 18 decks
6 Smaug the Impenetrable 14 decks
7 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 12 decks
8 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 12 decks
9 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 12 decks
10 Gandalf, Party Guest 11 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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.