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Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)
Live Play Data
The Dawning Archaic
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Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)
0%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
277
Decks Running
114
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
53%
Format
First-cast turn
n=35
3%
T1
0%
T2
0%
T3
0%
T4
17%
T5
60%
T6-9
20%
T10+
Median
6
P25
6
· P75
9
· max
12
On curve
91%
(4 / 35 cast on T10)
Cast same turn as drawn
40%
The "good card" funnel
278 brought · 107 playersBrought to game
278
Ever drawn
64
Reached battlefield
34
Still on board at game end
22
Once cast, 65% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.
≥ -4.1pp
Players who cast this card win 44% of the time (n=31) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=169).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=27).
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 +14.4pp; 95% confidence interval -4.1pp to +32.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
78 instances28.2%
Battlefield
38.5%
Graveyard
6.4%
Exile
26.9%
Hand
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Lorehold, the Historian
27 decks
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2
Vivi Ornitier
7 decks
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3
Fire Lord Azula
4 decks
-
4
Quandrix, the Proof
4 decks
-
5
Whtz, the Bibliophile
4 decks
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6
Prismari, the Inspiration
3 decks
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7
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
3 decks
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8
Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound
2 decks
-
9
Ian Malcolm, Chaotician
2 decks
-
10
Kalamax, the Stormsire
2 decks
Card text
The Dawning Archaic
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This spell costs 
less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
Reach
Whenever The Dawning Archaic attacks, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
Reach
Whenever The Dawning Archaic attacks, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.7 / 7
Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)
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Mythic
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Illustrated by Josu Solano
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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.