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

283

Decks Running

135

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=50

10%

16%

14%

30%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

283 brought · 129 players

Brought to game

283

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 38% 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.

≥ -13.8pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=46) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=173).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=31).

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 -0.7pp; 95% confidence interval -13.8pp to +12.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

85 instances

1.2%

Library

22.4%

Battlefield

35.3%

Graveyard

8.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 115 decks
2 Codie, Ravenous Codex 5 decks
3 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 3 decks
4 Kellan, the Kid 2 decks
5 Berta, Wise Extrapolator 1 decks
6 Captain America, First Avenger 1 decks
7 Eshki Dragonclaw 1 decks
8 Falco Spara, Pactweaver 1 decks
9 Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief 1 decks
10 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.