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Sylvan Scrying

· Sorcery · Battle for Zendikar (BFZ)

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Times Brought

619

Decks Running

325

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

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

Final zone distribution

137 instances

4.4%

Library

71.5%

Graveyard

4.4%

Exile

19.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

619 brought · 306 players

Brought to game

619

Ever drawn

126

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.6pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=70) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=350).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=33).

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 +1.6pp; 95% confidence interval -4.6pp to +7.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=86

13%

20%

17%

15%

20%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.5 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 22

On curve 33% (17 / 86 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

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.