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· Instant · Foundations (FDN)

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Times Brought

195

Decks Running

111

In Decks

686

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

40 instances

2.5%

Battlefield

67.5%

Graveyard

12.5%

Exile

17.5%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Shelob, Child of Ungoliant 21 decks
2 Wolverine, Best There Is 10 decks
3 Fynn, the Fangbearer 9 decks
4 Legolas, Master Archer 5 decks
5 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 3 decks
6 Kraven the Hunter 3 decks
7 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 2 decks
8 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 2 decks
9 Hit-Monkey 2 decks
10 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

195 brought · 108 players

Brought to game

195

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -12.6pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=25) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=146).

Observed gap +3.6pp; 95% confidence interval -12.6pp to +19.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=28

11%

61%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 7.5 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 16

On curve 0% (0 / 28 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

28 of 100 times cast 28%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.