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Cost of Brilliance SOS 0077 · common

Cost of Brilliance · {2}{B} · Sorcery · Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life. Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. · "There will be moments when you are exhausted, with nothing left to give. Remember them when you finally succeed." —Embrose, dean of shadow

Cost of Brilliance · {2}{B} · Sorcery · Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life. Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. · "There will be moments when you are exhausted, with nothing left to give. Remember them when you finally succeed." —Embrose, dean of shadow

Price
from $0.191 printing
Win rate
57.7% GIH 42,960 instances · Premier Draft
Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 24,777 wins in 42,960 card-in-hand instances.

38,527 distinct games · 13,500 distinct drafts · games recorded Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026.

17Lands file dated Jun 5, 2026 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Draft data

57.7%when drawn (GIH)

+2.3 pp vs 55.4% average · 42,960 instances

Premier Draft · Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026 · average from 582,914 games

#97 of 320 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 6.1 on average (187,751 packs).

13 of 42 black cards · 2 of 12 black common cards.

Taken at pick8.328,981 picks
Makes the deck60.4%28,981 picks with known usage
When played56.6%98,056.8 matchesBenched 54.6%
54,692.2 matches
When drawn57.7%42,960 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 56.6% · 17,470 instances
● Drawn later 58.4% · 25,490 instances

In hand 57.7% · 42,960 instances
Unseen in deck 56.6% · 57,978 instances
+1.1 percentage points when drawn

Compared with black cards

Win rate when drawn57.7%42,960 instances13 of 42
Opening hand56.6%17,470 instances11 of 42
Drawn later58.4%25,490 instances11 of 42
In the deck57.1%101,644 instances4 of 46
Without seeing it56.6%57,978 instances3 of 44
Improvement when drawn+1.1 pp42,960 instances / 57,978 instances18 of 42
When benched54.6%54,692.2 matches36 of 47
Makes the deck60.4%28,981 picks with known usage27 of 47
Pick (last seen)6.1187,751 packs37 of 47
Taken at8.328,981 picks34 of 47

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

Silverquill Repartee Aggro WB59.7%25,042 instancesWitherbloom Lifegain Swarm BG55.4%7,149 instancesBlack–Red BR46.2%13 instances · under 100Blue–Black UB25.0%4 instances · under 100

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (57.7% · 42,960 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Best with

Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.

Melancholic Poet+2.8 pp37,538 games with both in the deck · 9,749 both drawnInfirmary Healer+5.6 pp5,597 games with both in the deck · 1,241 both drawn
How to read this

Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.

At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.

Where it sits in the set

Above 70% of 320 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Apr 21–Jun 2, 2026

Collect

1 printingScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Prices

SOS 0077 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
NonfoilPlay Booster · prerelease-silverquill · prerelease-witherbloom$0.19
FoilCollector Booster · Play Booster$0.24

Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 22 packs (4.65%) · 43.5% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 149 packs (0.67%) · 18.3% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 13 packs (7.83%) · 91.3% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a prerelease-silverquill · Modeled · About 1 in 4 packs (26.47%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a prerelease-witherbloom · Modeled · About 1 in 4 packs (26.47%) · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

How to pull it

Official rates for the whole category, not this card.

BoosterSlotPer packCategory
Play BoosterCommons100% per positionCommons
Play BoosterCommon or bonus-sheet replacement98.1818%Common
Play BoosterWildcard of any rarity100%Wildcard of any rarity
Play BoosterTraditional foil of any rarity100%Traditional foil of any rarity
Collector BoosterTraditional foil commons100% per positionTraditional foil commons

Wizards · Collecting Secrets of Strixhaven ↗ · Oct 29, 2026

Details & sources

Legal in
Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Pauper · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration
Darren Tan, SOS 77 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
Regular printing printings →
Sources
Wizards · Collecting Secrets of Strixhaven · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗