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Shadow of the Second Sun

· Enchantment — Aura · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

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Times Brought

156

Decks Running

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

Shadow of the Second Sun

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant player At the beginning of each of enchanted player's postcombat main phases, there is an additional beginning phase after this phase. (The end step happens after the added untap, upkeep, and draw steps.)

Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Mythic · Illustrated by Danny Schwartz

Final zone distribution

39 instances

5.1%

Library

51.3%

Battlefield

15.4%

Graveyard

2.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 10 decks
2 Obeka, Splitter of Seconds 7 decks
3 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 5 decks
4 Braids, Conjurer Adept 3 decks
5 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 3 decks
6 Jhoira of the Ghitu 3 decks
7 Kang Prime 3 decks
8 Whtz, the Bibliophile 3 decks
9 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 2 decks
10 Chisei, Heart of Oceans 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

156 brought · 78 players

Brought to game

156

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 87% 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.

≥ -3.2pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=19) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=88).

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 +8.9pp; 95% confidence interval -3.2pp to +21.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=23

13%

17%

70%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 9

On curve 35% (1 / 23 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.