Live Play Data

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· Sorcery · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

287

Decks Running

134

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

51%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=43

12%

19%

49%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 42% (8 / 43 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

290 brought · 133 players

Brought to game

290

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.0pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=39) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=174).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=39).

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 +14.2pp; 95% confidence interval -1.0pp to +29.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

93 instances

3.2%

Library

1.1%

Battlefield

55.9%

Graveyard

10.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gandalf, Party Guest 23 decks
2 Orvar, the All-Form 15 decks
3 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 14 decks
4 Krark, the Thumbless 5 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 4 decks
6 Baral, Chief of Compliance 3 decks
7 Flubs, the Fool 3 decks
8 Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy 3 decks
9 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 2 decks
10 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea 2 decks

Card text

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Sorcery

Return two target creatures to their owners' hands. Wizardcycling {2}

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for a Wizard card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) · Common · Illustrated by Randy Gallegos

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 seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.