Live Play Data

Pursue the Past

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

240

Decks Running

105

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=46

11%

17%

13%

20%

22%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 13% (5 / 46 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

240 brought · 99 players

Brought to game

240

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -7.4pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=43) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=141).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=15).

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 +7.3pp; 95% confidence interval -7.4pp to +22.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

72 instances

2.8%

Library

68.1%

Graveyard

16.7%

Exile

12.5%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Quintorius, History Chaser 18 decks
2 General Ferrous Rokiric 9 decks
3 Terra, Herald of Hope 8 decks
4 Firesong and Sunspeaker 4 decks
5 Mog, Moogle Warrior 4 decks
6 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 3 decks
7 Mabel, Heir to Cragflame 3 decks
8 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 3 decks
9 Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad 2 decks
10 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 2 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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.