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Pursue the Past

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

110

Decks Running

In Decks

255

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

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).

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.

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%

21 of 100 times cast 21%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.