Live Play Data

Ingenious Prodigy

· Creature — Human Wizard · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

570

Decks Running

275

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=87

10%

21%

14%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 15

Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

570 brought · 253 players

Brought to game

570

Ever drawn

141

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 49% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -3.2pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=80) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=370).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=49).

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 +6.8pp; 95% confidence interval -3.2pp to +16.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

147 instances

1.4%

Library

29.3%

Battlefield

34.7%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Ingenious Prodigy

Creature — Human Wizard

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, if this creature has one or more +1/+1 counters on it, you may remove a +1/+1 counter from it. If you do, draw a card.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Kim Sokol

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.