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Surge to Victory

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

218

Decks Running

120

In Decks

680

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Surge to Victory

Sorcery

Exile target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. Creatures you control get +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is that card's mana value. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player this turn, copy the exiled card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Grzegorz Rutkowski

Final zone distribution

51 instances

3.9%

Library

17.6%

Battlefield

35.3%

Graveyard

11.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 61 decks
2 Ovika, Enigma Goliath 11 decks
3 Gandalf, Party Guest 8 decks
4 Lorehold, the Historian 8 decks
5 Kykar, Wind's Fury 3 decks
6 Prismari, the Inspiration 2 decks
7 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 1 decks
8 Aziza, Mage Tower Captain 1 decks
9 Bohn, Beguiling Balladeer 1 decks
10 Codie, Vociferous Codex 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

218 brought · 112 players

Brought to game

218

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +6.4pp

Players who cast this card win 52% of the time (n=24) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=151).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=22) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +24.4pp; 95% confidence interval +6.4pp to +42.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=24

71%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 17% (1 / 24 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 55%

24 of 100 times cast 24%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.