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Karmic Guide

{3} {W} {W} · Creature — Angel Spirit · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
Times Brought
347
Decks Running
202
In Decks
Decklist Inclusion
Format

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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Karmic Guide card

Karmic Guide

{3} {W} {W}
Creature — Angel Spirit
Flying, protection from black Echo {3}{W}{W} (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

83 instances
3.6%
Library
25.3%
Battlefield
42.2%
Graveyard
7.2%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

349 brought · 187 players
Brought to game
349
Ever drawn
74
Reached battlefield
47
Still on board at game end
21

Once cast, 45% 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.

≥ -2.6pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=38) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=203).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 37% (n=23) — 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 +6.0pp; 95% confidence interval -2.6pp to +14.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=47
0%
T1
0%
T2
2%
T3
4%
T4
15%
T5
60%
T6-9
19%
T10+
Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 17
On curve 21% (7 / 47 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 37%
47 of 100 times cast 47%

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.