Live Play Data

Perplexing Test

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

983

Decks Running

458

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=126

68%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 13% (9 / 126 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

983 brought · 419 players

Brought to game

983

Ever drawn

233

Reached battlefield

126

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.7pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=116) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=630).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=93).

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 +3.0pp; 95% confidence interval -5.7pp to +11.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

260 instances

3.5%

Library

3.1%

Battlefield

51.2%

Graveyard

9.6%

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 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.