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Seize the Spoils

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

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Times Brought

437

Decks Running

247

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

104 instances

1.9%

Library

2.9%

Battlefield

65.4%

Graveyard

8.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Quintorius, History Chaser 55 decks
2 Prismari, the Inspiration 9 decks
3 Smaug the Magnificent 9 decks
4 Lorehold, the Historian 5 decks
5 Mr. House, President and CEO 5 decks
6 Alania, Divergent Storm 4 decks
7 Aziza, Mage Tower Captain 4 decks
8 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 4 decks
9 Smaug the Impenetrable 4 decks
10 Thorin, King of Durin's Folk 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

437 brought · 229 players

Brought to game

437

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.9pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=58) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=260).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=28) — 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 +1.2pp; 95% confidence interval -5.9pp to +8.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=68

25%

10%

19%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 11

On curve 35% (17 / 68 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

68 of 100 times cast 68%

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.