Live Play Data

Open the Way

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1288

Decks Running

550

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=175

19%

27%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

1289 brought · 491 players

Brought to game

1289

Ever drawn

304

Reached battlefield

175

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.6pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=166) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=817).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=117).

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 +7.9pp; 95% confidence interval +0.6pp to +15.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

348 instances

2.9%

Library

1.4%

Battlefield

59.5%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

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 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.