Live Play Data

Bite Down

· Instant · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

641

Decks Running

327

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=80

10%

13%

55%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 1% (1 / 80 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

641 brought · 314 players

Brought to game

641

Ever drawn

136

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.2pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=70) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=417).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=49).

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 +10.6pp; 95% confidence interval -0.2pp to +21.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

147 instances

2.7%

Library

2.7%

Battlefield

53.7%

Graveyard

10.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Bite Down

Instant

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or planeswalker you don't control.

Foundations (FDN) · Common · Illustrated by Kitt Lapeña

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.