Live Play Data

Paradox Gardens

Land · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

491

Decks Running

200

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=97

26%

10%

11%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 1 · P75 7 · max 16

Cast same turn as drawn 61%

The "good card" funnel

491 brought · 179 players

Brought to game

491

Ever drawn

137

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 91% 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.

≥ +5.7pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=88) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=297).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=39).

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 +15.6pp; 95% confidence interval +5.7pp to +25.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

148 instances

1.4%

Library

59.5%

Battlefield

16.2%

Graveyard

2.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

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

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.