Long-Term Plans card art
Live Play Data

Long-Term Plans

{2} {U} · Instant · Scourge (SCG)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
364
Decks Running
170
Median Cast Turn
6.0
Drawn → Played
37%
Format

First-cast turn

n=40
0%
T1
3%
T2
3%
T3
20%
T4
20%
T5
45%
T6-9
10%
T10+
Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14
On curve 5% (1 / 40 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

364 brought · 167 players
Brought to game
364
Ever drawn
107
Reached battlefield
40
Still on board at game end
6
≥ +7.4pp

Players who cast this card win 49% of the time (n=38) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=210).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=61).

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 +23.1pp; 95% confidence interval +7.4pp to +38.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

115 instances
4.3%
Library
5.2%
Battlefield
41.7%
Graveyard
9.6%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Long-Term Plans card

Long-Term Plans

{2} {U}
Instant
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card third from the top.
Scourge (SCG) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Ben Thompson

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.
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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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.