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Improvisation Capstone

· Sorcery — Lesson · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

500

Decks Running

203

In Decks

997

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Improvisation Capstone

Sorcery — Lesson

Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile cards with total mana value 4 or greater. You may cast any number of spells from among them without paying their mana costs. 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 Marta Nael

Final zone distribution

130 instances

0.8%

Library

31.5%

Battlefield

17.7%

Graveyard

26.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lorehold, the Historian 15 decks
2 Gandalf, Party Guest 12 decks
3 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 9 decks
4 Thor, God of Thunder 9 decks
5 Prosper, Tome-Bound 8 decks
6 Codie, Vociferous Codex 6 decks
7 Prismari, the Inspiration 6 decks
8 Fire Lord Zuko 5 decks
9 Iroh, Grand Lotus 4 decks
10 Scarlet Witch, Chaotic Avenger 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

501 brought · 175 players

Brought to game

501

Ever drawn

113

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.9pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=68) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=312).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=33) — 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 +14.1pp; 95% confidence interval +1.9pp to +26.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=78

19%

64%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 81% (18 / 78 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

78 of 100 times cast 78%

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.