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Plumb the Forbidden

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

402

Decks Running

226

In Decks

1599

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

95 instances

1.1%

Library

3.2%

Battlefield

49.5%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 63 decks
2 Hazel of the Rootbloom 23 decks
3 Teysa Karlov 16 decks
4 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 11 decks
5 Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight 4 decks
6 Marrow-Gnawer 4 decks
7 Prossh, Skyraider of Kher 4 decks
8 Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker 4 decks
9 Witherbloom, the Balancer 4 decks
10 Blech, Loafing Pest 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

403 brought · 206 players

Brought to game

403

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -7.0pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=44) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=283).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=46) — 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 +5.5pp; 95% confidence interval -7.0pp to +18.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=44

68%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 2% (1 / 44 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

44 of 100 times cast 44%

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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 630,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.