Live Play Data

Zimone's Experiment

· Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

178

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=25

28%

20%

28%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 36% (7 / 25 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

178 brought · 62 players

Brought to game

178

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.3pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=22) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=121).

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 +14.7pp; 95% confidence interval -6.3pp to +35.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

42 instances

2.4%

Library

2.4%

Battlefield

73.8%

Graveyard

9.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Zimone's Experiment

Sorcery

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal up to two creature and/or land cards from among them, then put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Put all land cards revealed this way onto the battlefield tapped and put all creature cards revealed this way into your hand.

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Izzy

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.