Live Play Data

Serra Paragon

· Creature — Angel · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1005

Decks Running

408

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=169

18%

49%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 17% (16 / 169 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

1005 brought · 379 players

Brought to game

1005

Ever drawn

245

Reached battlefield

169

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +4.4pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=161) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=629).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=73).

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 +12.3pp; 95% confidence interval +4.4pp to +20.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

280 instances

2.9%

Library

31.4%

Battlefield

31.4%

Graveyard

11.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Serra Paragon

Creature — Angel

Flying Once during each of your turns, you may play a land from your graveyard or cast a permanent spell with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard. If you do, it gains "When this permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it and you gain 2 life."

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Heonhwa

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.