Live Play Data

Traumatic Critique

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

403

Decks Running

175

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=71

14%

51%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

403 brought · 168 players

Brought to game

403

Ever drawn

107

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +15.6pp

Players who cast this card win 46% of the time (n=69) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=259).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=35).

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 +27.3pp; 95% confidence interval +15.6pp to +38.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

118 instances

1.7%

Library

8.5%

Battlefield

57.6%

Graveyard

11.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Fire Lord Azula 30 decks
2 Prismari, the Inspiration 19 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 13 decks
4 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 9 decks
5 Rootha, Mastering the Moment 9 decks
6 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 7 decks
7 Alania, Divergent Storm 6 decks
8 Galazeth Prismari 6 decks
9 Magus Lucea Kane 5 decks
10 Iroh, Grand Lotus 4 decks

Card text

Traumatic Critique

Instant

Traumatic Critique deals X damage to any target. Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Rare · Illustrated by Aaron Miller

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.