Live Play Data

Solve the Equation

· Sorcery · Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

990

Decks Running

468

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=157

12%

13%

17%

45%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 23

On curve 13% (19 / 157 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

991 brought · 385 players

Brought to game

991

Ever drawn

268

Reached battlefield

157

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.3pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=146) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=607).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=107).

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 +10.3pp; 95% confidence interval +2.3pp to +18.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

298 instances

4.0%

Library

4.0%

Battlefield

53.0%

Graveyard

10.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Whtz, the Bibliophile 24 decks
2 Urza, Lord High Artificer 21 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 21 decks
4 Prismari, the Inspiration 17 decks
5 Codie, Vociferous Codex 12 decks
6 Baral, Chief of Compliance 11 decks
7 Bruvac the Grandiloquent 11 decks
8 Gandalf, Party Guest 8 decks
9 Magnus the Red 8 decks
10 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 7 decks

Card text

Solve the Equation

Sorcery

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Lie Setiawan

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.