Live Play Data

Seize the Spoils

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2321

Decks Running

998

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=364

15%

13%

44%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 20% (55 / 364 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

2323 brought · 847 players

Brought to game

2323

Ever drawn

543

Reached battlefield

364

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=321) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1486).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=162).

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 +7.2pp; 95% confidence interval +2.0pp to +12.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

628 instances

1.9%

Library

2.1%

Battlefield

64.3%

Graveyard

10.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Quintorius, History Chaser 114 decks
2 Smaug the Magnificent 46 decks
3 Smaug the Impenetrable 35 decks
4 Jaws, Relentless Predator 24 decks
5 Knuckles the Echidna 24 decks
6 Prismari, the Inspiration 24 decks
7 Smaug, Wicked Worm 22 decks
8 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 21 decks
9 Magar of the Magic Strings 19 decks
10 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 16 decks

Card text

Seize the Spoils

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with " {T}

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

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Common · Illustrated by Josiah "Jo" Cameron

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.