Live Play Data

Plumb the Forbidden

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2194

Decks Running

974

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

49%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=230

11%

54%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 22

On curve 1% (2 / 230 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

2195 brought · 858 players

Brought to game

2195

Ever drawn

470

Reached battlefield

230

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=226) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1528).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=226).

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 +4.3pp; 95% confidence interval -1.4pp to +10.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

531 instances

2.3%

Library

2.4%

Battlefield

52.5%

Graveyard

7.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 169 decks
2 Hazel of the Rootbloom 92 decks
3 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 51 decks
4 Teysa Karlov 42 decks
5 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 21 decks
6 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 18 decks
7 Blech, Loafing Pest 17 decks
8 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 15 decks
9 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 15 decks
10 Ygra, Eater of All 15 decks

Card text

Plumb the Forbidden

Instant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way. You draw a card and lose 1 life.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Andrey Kuzinskiy

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.