Live Play Data

Preordain

· Sorcery · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

4832

Decks Running

2274

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1025

11%

10%

11%

13%

36%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 24

On curve 11% (117 / 1025 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 55%

The "good card" funnel

4837 brought · 1752 players

Brought to game

4837

Ever drawn

1381

Reached battlefield

1025

Still on board at game end

≥ +6.6pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=942) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=2827).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=313).

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 +9.7pp; 95% confidence interval +6.6pp to +12.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1534 instances

4.4%

Library

2.4%

Battlefield

65.4%

Graveyard

11.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Preordain

Sorcery

Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Common · Illustrated by Svetlin Velinov

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.