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Pursue the Past

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

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Times Brought

147

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

46 instances

2.2%

Library

60.9%

Graveyard

17.4%

Exile

19.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Quintorius, History Chaser 15 decks
2 Mabel, Heir to Cragflame 5 decks
3 Firesong and Sunspeaker 4 decks
4 General Ferrous Rokiric 4 decks
5 Lorehold, the Historian 4 decks
6 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 3 decks
7 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 2 decks
8 Aurelia, the Warleader 2 decks
9 Bre of Clan Stoutarm 2 decks
10 Joshua, Phoenix's Dominant // Phoenix, Warden of Fire 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

147 brought · 71 players

Brought to game

147

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -16.0pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=24) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=73).

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 -4.5pp; 95% confidence interval -16.0pp to +6.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=31

10%

16%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 16% (3 / 31 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

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.