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Restoration Seminar

· Sorcery — Lesson · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

205

Decks Running

104

In Decks

593

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Restoration Seminar

Sorcery — Lesson

Return target nonland permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Mythic · Illustrated by Josu Hernaiz

Final zone distribution

56 instances

28.6%

Battlefield

12.5%

Graveyard

17.9%

Exile

41.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Lorehold, the Historian 12 decks
2 Quintorius, History Chaser 5 decks
3 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 4 decks
4 Giada, Font of Hope 3 decks
5 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 3 decks
6 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 3 decks
7 Codie, Vociferous Codex 2 decks
8 Jennifer Walters // The Sensational She-Hulk 2 decks
9 Karona, False God 2 decks
10 Killian, Decisive Mentor 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

205 brought · 91 players

Brought to game

205

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -15.9pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=24) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=127).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=22) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +4.0pp; 95% confidence interval -15.9pp to +23.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=27

59%

T6-9

30%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 17

On curve 41% (3 / 27 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

27 of 100 times cast 27%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.