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Relic Retriever

· Creature — Spirit Monkey · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

Decks Running

In Decks

560

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Relic Retriever

Creature — Spirit Monkey

First strike At the beginning of each end step, if a card left your graveyard this turn, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with " {T}

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

2 / 1

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Aldo Domínguez

Final zone distribution

31 instances

Not enough tracked games yet to show a reliable final-zone breakdown.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

99 brought · 63 players

Brought to game

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 67% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -10.0pp

Players who cast this card win 46% of the time (n=19) , vs 33% when it never left the library (n=63).

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 +13.4pp; 95% confidence interval -10.0pp to +36.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=21

14%

43%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 19% (1 / 21 cast on T2)

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.