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Surge to Victory

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

373

Decks Running

188

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

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

81 instances

12.3%

Battlefield

38.3%

Graveyard

9.9%

Exile

39.5%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

373 brought · 169 players

Brought to game

373

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +8.9pp

Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=29) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=213).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=30).

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 +16.1pp; 95% confidence interval +8.9pp to +23.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=32

16%

47%

T6-9

34%

T10+

Median 9.0 P25 7 · P75 11 · max 15

On curve 25% (2 / 32 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

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.