Live Play Data

Plumb the Forbidden

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

967

Decks Running

481

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

50%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=111

14%

58%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 1% (1 / 111 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

968 brought · 430 players

Brought to game

968

Ever drawn

224

Reached battlefield

111

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.0pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=102) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=595).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=100).

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 +2.0pp; 95% confidence interval -6.0pp to +10.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

246 instances

2.8%

Library

2.8%

Battlefield

51.6%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 109 decks
2 Hazel of the Rootbloom 47 decks
3 Teysa Karlov 25 decks
4 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 20 decks
5 The Serpent Society 9 decks
6 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 8 decks
7 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 8 decks
8 Witherbloom, the Balancer 8 decks
9 Dina, Soul Steeper 7 decks
10 Uugguu, the Omniplasm 7 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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.