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Instant
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Dominaria Remastered (DMR)
Live Play Data
Absorb
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Instant
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Dominaria Remastered (DMR)
2%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
201
Decks Running
109
Median Cast Turn
8.0
Drawn → Played
57%
Format
First-cast turn
n=28
0%
T1
0%
T2
0%
T3
4%
T4
0%
T5
57%
T6-9
39%
T10+
Median
8.0
P25
6
· P75
11
· max
18
On curve
0%
(0 / 28 cast on T3)
Cast same turn as drawn
21%
The "good card" funnel
202 brought · 101 playersBrought to game
202
Ever drawn
49
Reached battlefield
28
Still on board at game end
3
≥ +4.8pp
Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=27) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=127).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=19).
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 +23.5pp; 95% confidence interval +4.8pp to +42.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
52 instances3.8%
Library
5.8%
Battlefield
50.0%
Graveyard
5.8%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Hope Estheim
20 decks
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2
Isperia, Supreme Judge
13 decks
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3
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
9 decks
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4
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
7 decks
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5
Whtz, the Bibliophile
7 decks
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6
Will, Scion of Peace
5 decks
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7
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
4 decks
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8
Ms. Bumbleflower
3 decks
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9
Daxos of Meletis
2 decks
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10
Hylda of the Icy Crown
2 decks
Card text
Absorb
Instant
Counter target spell. You gain 3 life.
Dominaria Remastered (DMR)
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Rare
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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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.