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Germination Practicum

· Sorcery — Lesson · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

423

Decks Running

169

In Decks

881

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

111 instances

3.6%

Library

31.5%

Battlefield

16.2%

Graveyard

22.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

423 brought · 147 players

Brought to game

423

Ever drawn

101

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=61) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=270).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=28) — 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 +12.1pp; 95% confidence interval -0.1pp to +24.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=65

14%

34%

42%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 51% (22 / 65 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

65 of 100 times cast 65%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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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.