Live Play Data

Germination Practicum

· Sorcery — Lesson · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1836

Decks Running

612

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=264

19%

58%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 28% (50 / 264 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

1836 brought · 530 players

Brought to game

1836

Ever drawn

439

Reached battlefield

264

Still on board at game end

117

≥ +5.9pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=259) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1272).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=164).

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 +11.9pp; 95% confidence interval +5.9pp to +17.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

474 instances

4.0%

Library

24.7%

Battlefield

16.0%

Graveyard

24.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Germination Practicum

Sorcery — Lesson

Put two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control. Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Mythic · Illustrated by Johan Grenier

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.