Live Play Data

Root Manipulation

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

180

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=21

14%

62%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 19% (3 / 21 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

181 brought · 72 players

Brought to game

181

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -7.9pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=21) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=108).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 4% (n=17).

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 +12.5pp; 95% confidence interval -7.9pp to +32.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

46 instances

15.2%

Battlefield

41.3%

Graveyard

8.7%

Exile

34.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Root Manipulation

Sorcery

Until end of turn, creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain menace and "Whenever this creature attacks, you gain 1 life." (A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Elizabeth Peiró

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.