Live Play Data

Merchant Scroll

· Sorcery · Eighth Edition (8ED)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

631

Decks Running

320

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=106

12%

18%

40%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 23

On curve 8% (8 / 106 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

The "good card" funnel

631 brought · 284 players

Brought to game

631

Ever drawn

172

Reached battlefield

106

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.9pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=97) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=368).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 37% (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 +11.3pp; 95% confidence interval +1.9pp to +20.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

196 instances

5.1%

Library

2.6%

Battlefield

58.7%

Graveyard

9.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Merchant Scroll

Sorcery

Search your library for a blue instant card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Eighth Edition (8ED) · Uncommon · Illustrated by David Martin

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.