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Improvisation Capstone

· Sorcery — Lesson · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

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Times Brought

629

Decks Running

323

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

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

134 instances

2.2%

Library

35.1%

Battlefield

11.9%

Graveyard

26.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

629 brought · 275 players

Brought to game

629

Ever drawn

121

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +3.6pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=65) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=370).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=27).

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 +9.5pp; 95% confidence interval +3.6pp to +15.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=87

13%

16%

54%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 78% (19 / 87 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

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.