Live Play Data

Open the Way

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1576

Decks Running

664

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=206

16%

28%

43%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

1577 brought · 585 players

Brought to game

1577

Ever drawn

366

Reached battlefield

206

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=201) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=1067).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 37% (n=150).

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 +6.2pp; 95% confidence interval -0.5pp to +12.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

418 instances

3.1%

Library

1.2%

Battlefield

59.8%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 199 decks
2 Magus Lucea Kane 30 decks
3 Zaxara, the Exemplary 18 decks
4 Child of Alara 16 decks
5 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 13 decks
6 Homer, the Hermit 12 decks
7 Nine-Fingers Keene 12 decks
8 The Wandering Minstrel 11 decks
9 Shelob, Child of Ungoliant 10 decks
10 Tifa Lockhart 9 decks

Card text

Open the Way

Sorcery

X can't be greater than the number of players in the game. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal X land cards. Put those land cards onto the battlefield tapped and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Livia Prima

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.