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Open the Way

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

746

Decks Running

391

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

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

Final zone distribution

161 instances

5.6%

Library

0.6%

Battlefield

54.0%

Graveyard

3.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 155 decks
2 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 12 decks
3 Shelob, Child of Ungoliant 10 decks
4 Zaxara, the Exemplary 10 decks
5 Magus Lucea Kane 9 decks
6 Homer, the Hermit 7 decks
7 Nine-Fingers Keene 7 decks
8 Witherbloom, the Balancer 7 decks
9 Child of Alara 6 decks
10 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

746 brought · 355 players

Brought to game

746

Ever drawn

152

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.8pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=67) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=424).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=43).

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 +2.6pp; 95% confidence interval -3.8pp to +9.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=86

13%

20%

12%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 16

Cast same turn as drawn 30%

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.