Live Play Data

Throes of Chaos

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

117

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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%

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).

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 +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.

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

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

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.