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Staff of the Storyteller

{1} {W} · Artifact · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Buy on TCGplayer
Times Brought
203
Decks Running
132
In Decks
1053
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1
Card text
Staff of the Storyteller card

Staff of the Storyteller

{1} {W}
Artifact
When this artifact enters, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying. Whenever you create one or more creature tokens, put a story counter on this artifact. {W}, {T}, Remove a story counter from this artifact: Draw a card.
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Lorenzo Mastroianni

Final zone distribution

59 instances
3.4%
Library
61.0%
Battlefield
16.9%
Graveyard
13.6%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

203 brought · 128 players
Brought to game
203
Ever drawn
51
Reached battlefield
43
Still on board at game end
36

Once cast, 84% 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.

≥ -15.7pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=39) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=121).

Observed gap +0.2pp; 95% confidence interval -15.7pp to +16.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=43
9%
T1
16%
T2
5%
T3
21%
T4
12%
T5
21%
T6-9
16%
T10+
Median 4 P25 2 · P75 8 · max 12
On curve 26% (7 / 43 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 38%
43 of 100 times cast 43%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.