Live Play Data

Joined Researchers // Secret Rendezvous

· Creature — Human Cleric Wizard // Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

456

Decks Running

210

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=64

17%

13%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 23% (11 / 64 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 48%

The "good card" funnel

456 brought · 194 players

Brought to game

456

Ever drawn

116

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 36% 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.

≥ -19.4pp

Players who cast this card win 9% of the time (n=57) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=288).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=47).

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 -11.0pp; 95% confidence interval -19.4pp to -2.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

132 instances

3.0%

Library

17.4%

Battlefield

41.7%

Graveyard

6.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Codie, Ravenous Codex 22 decks
2 The Second Doctor 10 decks
3 Whtz, the Bibliophile 8 decks
4 Gluntch, the Bestower 7 decks
5 Yume, Chronicler of Valor 7 decks
6 Breena, the Demagogue 5 decks
7 Elda, Conjurer of Spectacle 5 decks
8 Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar 5 decks
9 Vislor Turlough 5 decks
10 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 4 decks

Card text

Joined Researchers

Creature — Human Cleric Wizard

First strike At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent has more cards in hand than you, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)

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Secret Rendezvous

Sorcery

You and target opponent each draw three cards.

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Rare · Illustrated by Ryan Pancoast

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.