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Paradox Gardens

Land · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

256

Decks Running

112

In Decks

544

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Paradox Gardens

Land

This land enters tapped. {T}

: Add

: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Common · Illustrated by Leon Tukker

Final zone distribution

75 instances

2.7%

Library

54.7%

Battlefield

13.3%

Graveyard

4.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 70 decks
2 Teval, the Balanced Scale 4 decks
3 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 3 decks
4 Hakbal of the Surging Soul 2 decks
5 Primo, the Unbounded 2 decks
6 The Astonishing Ant-Man 2 decks
7 Yarok, the Desecrated 2 decks
8 Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior 1 decks
9 Adrix and Nev, Twincasters 1 decks
10 Aloy, Savior of Meridian 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

256 brought · 104 players

Brought to game

256

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 89% 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.

≥ -9.2pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=44) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=151).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=23) — 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 +3.7pp; 95% confidence interval -9.2pp to +16.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=46

30%

15%

11%

24%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 3.0 P25 1 · P75 8 · max 14

Cast same turn as drawn 60%

46 of 100 times cast 46%

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.