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Banishing Betrayal

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

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Times Brought

153

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Banishing Betrayal

Instant

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Common · Illustrated by Craig Elliott

Final zone distribution

41 instances

2.4%

Battlefield

56.1%

Graveyard

4.9%

Exile

36.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Denzilore Fatehold 10 decks
2 Mirko, Obsessive Theorist 7 decks
3 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 4 decks
4 Fire Lord Azula 2 decks
5 Maelstrom Wanderer 2 decks
6 Matoya, Archon Elder 2 decks
7 Vivi Ornitier 2 decks
8 Aloy, Savior of Meridian 1 decks
9 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 1 decks
10 Captain Howler, Sea Scourge 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

153 brought · 45 players

Brought to game

153

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -15.1pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=17) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=64).

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 -1.9pp; 95% confidence interval -15.1pp to +11.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=27

15%

52%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 4% (0 / 27 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.