Live Play Data

Sylvan Scrying

· Sorcery · Battle for Zendikar (BFZ)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1138

Decks Running

482

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=188

18%

13%

10%

13%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 24% (33 / 188 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

The "good card" funnel

1138 brought · 437 players

Brought to game

1138

Ever drawn

275

Reached battlefield

188

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.2pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=170) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=725).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=67).

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 +7.0pp; 95% confidence interval -0.2pp to +14.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

316 instances

4.7%

Library

1.6%

Battlefield

64.2%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Sylvan Scrying

Sorcery

Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Battle for Zendikar (BFZ) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Daniel Ljunggren

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.