Live Play Data

Mathemagics

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

811

Decks Running

317

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=151

10%

67%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 19

Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

811 brought · 286 players

Brought to game

811

Ever drawn

249

Reached battlefield

151

Still on board at game end

≥ +15.3pp

Players who cast this card win 47% of the time (n=139) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=464).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=90).

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 +23.9pp; 95% confidence interval +15.3pp to +32.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

269 instances

3.3%

Library

15.6%

Battlefield

40.9%

Graveyard

5.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Mathemagics

Sorcery

Target player draws 2ˣ cards. (2⁰ = 1, 2¹ = 2, 2² = 4, 2³ = 8, 2⁴ = 16, 2⁵ = 32, and so on.)

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Mythic · Illustrated by Liiga Smilshkalne

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.