Live Play Data

Rousing Refrain

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1036

Decks Running

405

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=194

14%

12%

50%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 39% (24 / 194 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

1036 brought · 363 players

Brought to game

1036

Ever drawn

284

Reached battlefield

194

Still on board at game end

142

≥ +5.4pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=189) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=678).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=84).

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 +12.4pp; 95% confidence interval +5.4pp to +19.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

308 instances

1.9%

Library

46.1%

Battlefield

20.1%

Graveyard

10.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 134 decks
2 Obeka, Splitter of Seconds 43 decks
3 Stella Lee, Wild Card 22 decks
4 The Tenth Doctor 14 decks
5 Prismari, the Inspiration 10 decks
6 Vivi Ornitier 10 decks
7 Zaffai, Thunder Conductor 10 decks
8 The Scarlet Witch 6 decks
9 Jhoira of the Ghitu 5 decks
10 Ozai, the Phoenix King 5 decks

Card text

Rousing Refrain

Sorcery

Add

for each card in target opponent's hand. Until end of turn, you don't lose this mana as steps and phases end. Exile Rousing Refrain with three time counters on it. Suspend 3— {1}

(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}

and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · 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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.