Live Play Data

Striding Shotcaller // Run the Play

· Creature — Troll Druid // Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

360

Decks Running

162

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=57

14%

16%

33%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 6 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

360 brought · 153 players

Brought to game

360

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 37% 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.

≥ -11.0pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=53) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=222).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=37).

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 +0.6pp; 95% confidence interval -11.0pp to +12.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

102 instances

2.9%

Library

20.6%

Battlefield

38.2%

Graveyard

6.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 132 decks
2 Codie, Ravenous Codex 14 decks
3 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 3 decks
4 Kellan, the Kid 2 decks
5 Berta, Wise Extrapolator 1 decks
6 Blue, Loyal Raptor 1 decks
7 Captain America, First Avenger 1 decks
8 Eshki Dragonclaw 1 decks
9 Falco Spara, Pactweaver 1 decks
10 Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief 1 decks

Card text

Striding Shotcaller

Creature — Troll Druid

Reach Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)

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Run the Play

Sorcery

Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to X target creatures. Those creatures gain flying until end of turn. Draw a card.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Brian Valeza

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.