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Throes of Chaos

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

117

Decks Running

In Decks

560

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Throes of Chaos

Sorcery

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.) Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Igor Kieryluk

Final zone distribution

37 instances

5.4%

Library

2.7%

Battlefield

67.6%

Graveyard

13.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

117 brought · 72 players

Brought to game

117

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.3pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=24) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=73).

Observed gap +13.4pp; 95% confidence interval -8.3pp to +35.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=25

16%

12%

44%

T6-9

24%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 20% (4 / 25 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

25 of 100 times cast 25%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.