Live Play Data

Staff of the Storyteller

· Artifact · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

312

Decks Running

181

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

82%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=60

17%

18%

13%

25%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 23% (10 / 60 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

314 brought · 173 players

Brought to game

314

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 85% 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.

≥ -0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=55) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=197).

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 +12.9pp; 95% confidence interval -0.9pp to +26.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

85 instances

4.7%

Library

60.0%

Battlefield

12.9%

Graveyard

12.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Quintorius, History Chaser 71 decks
2 Neyali, Suns' Vanguard 8 decks
3 Millicent, Restless Revenant 7 decks
4 King of the Oathbreakers 5 decks
5 Mendicant Core, Guidelight 5 decks
6 Baylen, the Haymaker 4 decks
7 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 4 decks
8 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice 4 decks
9 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings 3 decks
10 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 2 decks

Card text

Staff of the Storyteller

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}

, Remove a story counter from this artifact: Draw a card.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Lorenzo Mastroianni

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.