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Serra Paragon

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

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Times Brought

683

Decks Running

310

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

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

Final zone distribution

156 instances

2.6%

Library

42.3%

Battlefield

20.5%

Graveyard

9.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

683 brought · 281 players

Brought to game

683

Ever drawn

143

Reached battlefield

100

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 66% 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.

≥ -1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=76) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=394).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=30).

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 +4.9pp; 95% confidence interval -1.1pp to +10.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=100

18%

16%

49%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 24

On curve 23% (18 / 100 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

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.