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Live Play Data

Absorb

{W} {U} {U} · Instant · Dominaria Remastered (DMR)
2%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
563
Decks Running
267
Median Cast Turn
8.0
Drawn → Played
53%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=74
0%
T1
1%
T2
3%
T3
1%
T4
5%
T5
55%
T6-9
34%
T10+
Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 11 · max 19
On curve 4% (2 / 74 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

564 brought · 249 players
Brought to game
564
Ever drawn
139
Reached battlefield
74
Still on board at game end
5
≥ +0.7pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=69) , vs 15% when it never left the library (n=351).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=54).

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 +11.2pp; 95% confidence interval +0.7pp to +21.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

150 instances
2.7%
Library
3.3%
Battlefield
50.0%
Graveyard
6.0%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Absorb card

Absorb

{W} {U} {U}
Instant
Counter target spell. You gain 3 life.
Dominaria Remastered (DMR) · Rare · Illustrated by Andrew Goldhawk

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.