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· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

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Times Brought

925

Decks Running

492

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

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

Final zone distribution

209 instances

4.3%

Library

7.7%

Battlefield

52.6%

Graveyard

8.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 49 decks
2 Fire Lord Azula 41 decks
3 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 29 decks
4 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy 18 decks
5 Prismari, the Inspiration 16 decks
6 Quintorius, History Chaser 11 decks
7 Zada, Hedron Grinder 10 decks
8 Smaug the Impenetrable 9 decks
9 Gandalf, Party Guest 8 decks
10 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 8 decks

The "good card" funnel

937 brought · 416 players

Brought to game

937

Ever drawn

182

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=76) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=537).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=72).

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 +7.0pp; 95% confidence interval +1.2pp to +12.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=98

15%

53%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 0% (0 / 98 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

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.