Live Play Data

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· Instant · Double Masters (2XM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1114

Decks Running

473

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

46%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=133

10%

12%

19%

36%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 51% (25 / 133 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

1115 brought · 404 players

Brought to game

1115

Ever drawn

288

Reached battlefield

133

Still on board at game end

≥ +12.6pp

Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=110) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=635).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=140).

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 +21.7pp; 95% confidence interval +12.6pp to +30.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

352 instances

2.0%

Library

6.0%

Battlefield

38.4%

Graveyard

19.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tymna the Weaver 28 decks
2 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 19 decks
3 Kraum, Ludevic's Opus 14 decks
4 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 12 decks
5 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 11 decks
6 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 10 decks
7 Kaalia of the Vast 10 decks
8 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 10 decks
9 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 10 decks
10 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 10 decks

Card text

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Instant

Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may repeat this process any number of times.

Double Masters (2XM) · Rare · Illustrated by Jeremy Jarvis

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.