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Keen Duelist

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

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Times Brought

228

Decks Running

143

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

47 instances

6.4%

Library

29.8%

Battlefield

31.9%

Graveyard

10.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Killian, Decisive Mentor 51 decks
2 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 12 decks
3 Abaddon the Despoiler 6 decks
4 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 5 decks
5 Mister Negative 5 decks
6 Rowan, Scion of War 5 decks
7 Marvo, Deep Operative 4 decks
8 Obeka, Splitter of Seconds 4 decks
9 Breena, the Demagogue 3 decks
10 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

228 brought · 141 players

Brought to game

228

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ -16.4pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=17) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=126).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=15).

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 -3.4pp; 95% confidence interval -16.4pp to +9.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=27

11%

33%

22%

11%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 3 P25 2 · P75 5 · max 10

On curve 44% (9 / 27 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 46%

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.