Live Play Data

Keen Duelist

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

822

Decks Running

407

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=161

24%

11%

16%

32%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 24% (38 / 161 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

822 brought · 390 players

Brought to game

822

Ever drawn

231

Reached battlefield

161

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ -0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=157) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=535).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=67).

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 +6.6pp; 95% confidence interval -0.5pp to +13.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

257 instances

7.4%

Library

29.2%

Battlefield

33.9%

Graveyard

7.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Killian, Decisive Mentor 118 decks
2 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 27 decks
3 Breena, the Demagogue 26 decks
4 Rowan, Scion of War 15 decks
5 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 10 decks
6 Abaddon the Despoiler 9 decks
7 Liesa, Shroud of Dusk 8 decks
8 The Second Doctor 8 decks
9 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 8 decks
10 Mister Negative 7 decks

Card text

Keen Duelist

Creature — Human Wizard

At the beginning of your upkeep, you and target opponent each reveal the top card of your library. You each lose life equal to the mana value of the card revealed by the other player. You each put the card you revealed into your hand.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Lindsey Look

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.