Live Play Data

Pox Plague

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

260

Decks Running

133

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=34

21%

56%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 26% (7 / 34 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

261 brought · 130 players

Brought to game

261

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -22.9pp

Players who cast this card win 12% of the time (n=31) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=167).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 40% (n=22).

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 -10.1pp; 95% confidence interval -22.9pp to +2.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

73 instances

2.7%

Library

5.5%

Battlefield

46.6%

Graveyard

24.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 22 decks
2 Baron Helmut Zemo 19 decks
3 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 6 decks
4 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 5 decks
5 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 3 decks
6 Super Shredder 3 decks
7 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead 2 decks
8 Blech, Loafing Pest 2 decks
9 Braids, Cabal Minion 2 decks
10 Dina, Essence Brewer 2 decks

Card text

Pox Plague

Sorcery

Each player loses half their life, then discards half the cards in their hand, then sacrifices half the permanents they control of their choice. Round down each time.

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Rare · Illustrated by Camille Alquier

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.