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Troyan, Gutsy Explorer

{1} {G} {U} · Legendary Creature — Vedalken Scout · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
Times Brought
134
Decks Running
81
In Decks
Decklist Inclusion
Format

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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Troyan, Gutsy Explorer card

Troyan, Gutsy Explorer

{1} {G} {U}
Legendary Creature — Vedalken Scout
{T}: Add {G}{U}. Spend this mana only to cast spells with mana value 5 or greater or spells with {X} in their mana costs. {U}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Jesper Ejsing

Final zone distribution

35 instances
45.7%
Battlefield
14.3%
Graveyard
5.7%
Exile
34.3%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

134 brought · 80 players
Brought to game
134
Ever drawn
33
Reached battlefield
19
Still on board at game end
16
≥ -16.8pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=19) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=79).

Observed gap -4.1pp; 95% confidence interval -16.8pp to +8.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

19 of 100 times cast 19%

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.