Live Play Data

Assassin's Trophy

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

34%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

5975

Decks Running

2757

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=934

10%

14%

53%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 27

On curve 2% (16 / 934 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

5977 brought · 1942 players

Brought to game

5977

Ever drawn

1340

Reached battlefield

934

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=871) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=3777).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=351).

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 +1.4pp; 95% confidence interval -1.6pp to +4.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1577 instances

3.7%

Library

2.6%

Battlefield

64.1%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 161 decks
2 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 116 decks
3 Leonardo, the Balance 101 decks
4 Ezio Auditore da Firenze 64 decks
5 Thranduil, the Elvenking 63 decks
6 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 62 decks
7 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 59 decks
8 The Wise Mothman 59 decks
9 Teval, the Balanced Scale 51 decks
10 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 44 decks

Card text

Assassin's Trophy

Instant

Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Dmitry Burmak

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.