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Keen Duelist

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

260

Decks Running

156

In Decks

958

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

84 instances

8.3%

Library

28.6%

Battlefield

36.9%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Killian, Decisive Mentor 62 decks
2 Breena, the Demagogue 11 decks
3 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 9 decks
4 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 5 decks
5 The Lord of Pain 5 decks
6 Kenrith, the Returned King 3 decks
7 Liesa, Shroud of Dusk 3 decks
8 Mister Negative 3 decks
9 Rowan, Scion of War 3 decks
10 Abaddon the Despoiler 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

260 brought · 148 players

Brought to game

260

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

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.

≥ -11.7pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=50) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=162).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (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 +0.0pp; 95% confidence interval -11.7pp to +11.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=53

23%

15%

26%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 30% (12 / 53 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

53 of 100 times cast 53%

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.