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Mystic Sanctuary

Land — Island · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

1140

Decks Running

566

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

Mystic Sanctuary

Land — Island

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.) This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands. When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Common · Illustrated by Randy Vargas

Final zone distribution

321 instances

2.8%

Library

59.5%

Battlefield

11.2%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 53 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 23 decks
3 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 14 decks
4 Orvar, the All-Form 10 decks
5 Prismari, the Inspiration 9 decks
6 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 9 decks
7 The Mindskinner 8 decks
8 Vnwxt, Verbose Host 8 decks
9 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 7 decks
10 Alela, Cunning Conqueror 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

1145 brought · 478 players

Brought to game

1145

Ever drawn

292

Reached battlefield

213

Still on board at game end

191

Once cast, 90% 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.

≥ -3.8pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=183) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=684).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=64) — 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 +0.2pp; 95% confidence interval -3.8pp to +4.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=213

14%

17%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 51%

1569 of 300 tracked games 99%

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.