Sol Ring
88% of Commander decks tracked on Playgroup Live include Sol Ring. When drawn, 90% of copies reach the battlefield, with a median first-cast turn of 3.
Sol Ring sits in 88% of the 17176 Commander decks that have played a tracked game on Playgroup Live. That figure holds across every archetype and color identity in the dataset. No other card comes close to that breadth.
The draw-to-play rate tells the clearest story: 90% of drawn copies reach the battlefield before the game ends. Median first cast lands on turn 3, driven by a large cluster of opening-hand plays on turn 1. Once it resolves, 82% of cast copies survive to the final zone snapshot, a direct measure of how rarely opponents can answer a 1-mana artifact in the early game.
Sol Ring is legal in Commander and PreDH, restricted in Vintage, and banned in Duel Commander, Legacy, and Oathbreaker. Its colorless identity means it fits every deck, which is exactly why 88% inclusion is the floor rather than the ceiling.
- 88% of tracked Commander decks include Sol Ring
- 90% of drawn copies are cast before the game ends
- T3 median first-cast turn
- 82% battlefield stickiness once cast
- 4617 distinct players have brought Sol Ring to a tracked game
- 28% draw rate per game, consistent with a singleton in a 100-card deck
First-cast turn
n=7389The "good card" funnel
29024 brought · 4617 playersOf 29024 Sol Rings brought to tracked games, 8168 were drawn, 7387 of those were cast, and the large majority remained on the battlefield at end of game.
Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=6848) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=17797).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=673) — 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 +7.8pp; 95% confidence interval +6.6pp to +8.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
8854 instancesMost Sol Rings never leave the library in any given game, a structural feature of 100-card singleton rather than a reflection of the card's power. The 82% stickiness figure covers only the copies that actually resolved.
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
180 decks
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2
Doctor Doom, King of Latveria
135 decks
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3
Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER
127 decks
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4
Ms. Bumbleflower
124 decks
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5
Captain America, Team Leader
113 decks
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6
Krenko, Mob Boss
108 decks
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7
The Ur-Dragon
106 decks
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8
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
101 decks
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9
Zimone, Infinite Analyst
96 decks
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10
Dina, Essence Brewer
93 decks
Sol Ring appears across every color identity in the top commanders list, from mono-white Giada to five-color The Ur-Dragon. No single archetype dominates, which reflects the card's colorless nature.