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Skyclave Apparition

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

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Times Brought

898

Decks Running

521

In Decks

—

Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

194 instances

4.1%

Library

41.8%

Battlefield

24.2%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Quintorius, History Chaser 123 decks
2 Zinnia, Valley's Voice 55 decks
3 Satya, Aetherflux Genius 40 decks
4 Winota, Joiner of Forces 29 decks
5 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign 24 decks
6 Brago, King Eternal 16 decks
7 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines 15 decks
8 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd 11 decks
9 King of the Oathbreakers 10 decks
10 The Jolly Balloon Man 10 decks

The "good card" funnel

900 brought · 471 players

Brought to game

900

Ever drawn

177

Reached battlefield

117

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 69% 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.

≥ +3.1pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=94) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=490).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=40).

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 +8.4pp; 95% confidence interval +3.1pp to +13.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=117

12%

15%

20%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 23% (14 / 117 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

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.