Live Play Data

Pursue the Past

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

110

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=21

14%

10%

29%

24%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 14% (3 / 21 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 48%

The "good card" funnel

110 brought · 54 players

Brought to game

110

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -10.5pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=21) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=68).

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 +10.8pp; 95% confidence interval -10.5pp to +32.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

29 instances

3.4%

Library

51.7%

Graveyard

24.1%

Exile

20.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Quintorius, History Chaser 12 decks
2 General Ferrous Rokiric 6 decks
3 Terra, Herald of Hope 5 decks
4 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 2 decks
5 Baylen, the Haymaker 2 decks
6 Bre of Clan Stoutarm 2 decks
7 Firesong and Sunspeaker 2 decks
8 Mog, Moogle Warrior 2 decks
9 Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader 2 decks
10 Adriana, Captain of the Guard 1 decks

Card text

Pursue the Past

Sorcery

You gain 2 life. You may discard a card. If you do, draw two cards. Flashback {2}

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Common · Illustrated by Craig Elliott

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.