Live Play Data

Improvisation Capstone

· Sorcery — Lesson · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1372

Decks Running

463

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=235

12%

19%

57%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 75% (40 / 235 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

1373 brought · 388 players

Brought to game

1373

Ever drawn

345

Reached battlefield

235

Still on board at game end

122

≥ +15.5pp

Players who cast this card win 52% of the time (n=217) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=859).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=102).

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 +22.4pp; 95% confidence interval +15.5pp to +29.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

401 instances

4.0%

Library

30.4%

Battlefield

17.0%

Graveyard

26.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lorehold, the Historian 32 decks
2 Gandalf, Party Guest 26 decks
3 Iroh, Grand Lotus 20 decks
4 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 14 decks
5 Fire Lord Zuko 14 decks
6 Thor, God of Thunder 14 decks
7 Prosper, Tome-Bound 13 decks
8 Vivi Ornitier 11 decks
9 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 10 decks
10 Ruby, Daring Tracker 10 decks

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

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.