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Solve the Equation

· Sorcery · Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX)

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Times Brought

511

Decks Running

264

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

Solve the Equation

Sorcery

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

Final zone distribution

130 instances

2.3%

Library

5.4%

Battlefield

54.6%

Graveyard

11.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 17 decks
2 Urza, Lord High Artificer 14 decks
3 Prismari, the Inspiration 11 decks
4 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy 10 decks
5 Whtz, the Bibliophile 8 decks
6 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 7 decks
7 Baral, Chief of Compliance 6 decks
8 Codie, Vociferous Codex 5 decks
9 Orvar, the All-Form 5 decks
10 Anhelo, the Painter 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

511 brought · 237 players

Brought to game

511

Ever drawn

116

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.8pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=54) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=294).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=43).

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 +9.8pp; 95% confidence interval +2.8pp to +16.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=65

14%

11%

20%

35%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 22% (4 / 65 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

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.