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Karmic Guide

· Creature — Angel Spirit · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

430

Decks Running

245

In Decks

2139

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Karmic Guide

Creature — Angel Spirit

Flying, protection from black Echo {3}

(At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When this creature enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Allen Williams

Final zone distribution

130 instances

2.3%

Library

23.8%

Battlefield

34.6%

Graveyard

10.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Quintorius, History Chaser 56 decks
2 Terra, Herald of Hope 30 decks
3 Giada, Font of Hope 17 decks
4 Kaalia of the Vast 12 decks
5 Sefris of the Hidden Ways 9 decks
6 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 7 decks
7 Teysa Karlov 7 decks
8 Brago, King Eternal 6 decks
9 Karador, Ghost Chieftain 4 decks
10 Beza, the Bounding Spring 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

430 brought · 219 players

Brought to game

430

Ever drawn

118

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 42% 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.

≥ +9.7pp

Players who cast this card win 48% of the time (n=68) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=271).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=43) — 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 +21.6pp; 95% confidence interval +9.7pp to +33.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=73

10%

67%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 15% (7 / 73 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

73 of 100 times cast 73%

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.