Live Play Data

Reality Shift

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2265

Decks Running

1095

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=395

17%

52%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 2% (5 / 395 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

2267 brought · 895 players

Brought to game

2267

Ever drawn

593

Reached battlefield

395

Still on board at game end

≥ +4.5pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=353) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=1380).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=176).

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 +9.4pp; 95% confidence interval +4.5pp to +14.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

662 instances

2.7%

Library

4.4%

Battlefield

59.4%

Graveyard

8.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Reality Shift

Instant

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Howard Lyon

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.