Live Play Data

Perplexing Test

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1524

Decks Running

670

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=200

65%

T6-9

28%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 15

On curve 8% (10 / 200 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

1524 brought · 608 players

Brought to game

1524

Ever drawn

365

Reached battlefield

200

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.3pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=191) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1029).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=152).

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 +3.4pp; 95% confidence interval -3.3pp to +10.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

399 instances

3.8%

Library

3.8%

Battlefield

51.9%

Graveyard

7.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Perplexing Test

Instant

Choose one — • Return all creature tokens to their owners' hands. • Return all nontoken creatures to their owners' hands.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Fariba Khamseh

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.