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Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth

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

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Times Brought

691

Decks Running

337

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

158 instances

0.6%

Library

48.1%

Battlefield

39.2%

Graveyard

1.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

691 brought · 312 players

Brought to game

691

Ever drawn

149

Reached battlefield

127

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 60% 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 29% of the time (n=107) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=393).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=17).

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 +9.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=127

26%

13%

12%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 1 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 26% (33 / 127 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 78%

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.