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Three Steps Ahead

· Instant · Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ)

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Times Brought

748

Decks Running

343

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

Three Steps Ahead

Instant

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1}

— Counter target spell. + {3}

— Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature you control. + {2}

— Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) · Rare · Illustrated by Francisco Miyara

Final zone distribution

187 instances

1.1%

Library

1.6%

Battlefield

59.4%

Graveyard

7.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

748 brought · 311 players

Brought to game

748

Ever drawn

168

Reached battlefield

101

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.5pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=78) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=396).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=49).

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 +0.5pp; 95% confidence interval -5.5pp to +6.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=101

14%

15%

49%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 1% (1 / 101 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.