Live Play Data

Surge to Victory

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

668

Decks Running

279

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

53%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=87

62%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 30% (12 / 87 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

668 brought · 256 players

Brought to game

668

Ever drawn

164

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +10.3pp

Players who cast this card win 48% of the time (n=82) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=435).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=71).

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 +20.8pp; 95% confidence interval +10.3pp to +31.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

185 instances

2.7%

Library

15.1%

Battlefield

40.5%

Graveyard

10.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 129 decks
2 Gandalf, Party Guest 24 decks
3 Lorehold, the Historian 19 decks
4 Ovika, Enigma Goliath 18 decks
5 Zaffai, Thunder Conductor 6 decks
6 Prismari, the Inspiration 5 decks
7 Riku of Many Paths 5 decks
8 Aziza, Mage Tower Captain 4 decks
9 Kykar, Wind's Fury 4 decks
10 Veyran, Voice of Duality 4 decks

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

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.