Live Play Data

Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth

· Creature — Bear Wizard // Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1454

Decks Running

615

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

79%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=305

24%

14%

11%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 24% (72 / 305 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 63%

The "good card" funnel

1454 brought · 564 players

Brought to game

1454

Ever drawn

384

Reached battlefield

305

Still on board at game end

124

Once cast, 41% 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.

≥ -0.8pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=291) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=942).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=73).

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 +4.5pp; 95% confidence interval -0.8pp to +9.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

433 instances

2.1%

Library

28.6%

Battlefield

45.0%

Graveyard

8.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Studious First-Year

Creature — Bear Wizard

This creature enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)

1 / 1

Rampant Growth

Sorcery

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Common · Illustrated by Mariah Tekulve

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.