Live Play Data

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· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

658

Decks Running

309

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=131

18%

11%

48%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 11% (10 / 131 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

663 brought · 280 players

Brought to game

663

Ever drawn

188

Reached battlefield

131

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.6pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=114) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=391).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=51).

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 +8.8pp; 95% confidence interval +0.6pp to +16.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

202 instances

4.5%

Library

66.3%

Graveyard

6.9%

Exile

22.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 18 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 16 decks
3 Fire Lord Azula 12 decks
4 Niv-Mizzet, Parun 11 decks
5 Quandrix, the Proof 8 decks
6 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis 7 decks
7 Minn, Wily Illusionist 7 decks
8 The Astonishing Ant-Man 7 decks
9 The Watcher in the Water 7 decks
10 Alela, Cunning Conqueror 6 decks

Card text

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Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Common · Illustrated by Izzy

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.