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Skyclave Apparition

· Creature — Kor Spirit · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

349

Decks Running

218

In Decks

1964

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Skyclave Apparition

Creature — Kor Spirit

When this creature enters, exile up to one target nonland, nontoken permanent you don't control with mana value 4 or less. When this creature leaves the battlefield, the exiled card's owner creates an X/X blue Illusion creature token, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Donato Giancola

Final zone distribution

94 instances

3.2%

Library

27.7%

Battlefield

39.4%

Graveyard

12.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Quintorius, History Chaser 62 decks
2 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 31 decks
3 Winota, Joiner of Forces 11 decks
4 Satya, Aetherflux Genius 10 decks
5 Brago, King Eternal 6 decks
6 Millicent, Restless Revenant 6 decks
7 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 5 decks
8 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd 4 decks
9 Tayam, Luminous Enigma 4 decks
10 Terra, Herald of Hope 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

350 brought · 200 players

Brought to game

350

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 45% 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.

≥ -0.7pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=54) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=226).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=23) — 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 +12.6pp; 95% confidence interval -0.7pp to +26.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=58

14%

53%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 7% (3 / 58 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

58 of 100 times cast 57%

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.