Live Play Data

Sorceress's Schemes

· Sorcery · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

169

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

47%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=22

18%

59%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 14% (0 / 22 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 48%

The "good card" funnel

169 brought · 59 players

Brought to game

169

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +3.8pp

Players who cast this card win 57% of the time (n=20) , vs 32% when it never left the library (n=101).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 59% (n=23).

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 +25.1pp; 95% confidence interval +3.8pp to +46.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

53 instances

9.4%

Battlefield

43.4%

Graveyard

18.9%

Exile

28.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 7 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 6 decks
3 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 5 decks
4 Sami, Wildcat Captain 4 decks
5 The Scarlet Witch 4 decks
6 Mizzix of the Izmagnus 3 decks
7 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 2 decks
8 Codie, Vociferous Codex 2 decks
9 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 2 decks
10 Quintorius, History Chaser 2 decks

Card text

Sorceress's Schemes

Sorcery

Return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard or exiled card with flashback you own to your hand. Add {R}

. Flashback {4}

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Jessica Fong

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.