Live Play Data

Braids, Cabal Minion

· Legendary Creature — Human Minion · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

326

Decks Running

140

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=54

20%

15%

50%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 31% (11 / 54 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 18%

The "good card" funnel

326 brought · 132 players

Brought to game

326

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 27% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -9.5pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=47) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=201).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=21).

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 +3.2pp; 95% confidence interval -9.5pp to +15.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

88 instances

5.7%

Library

14.8%

Battlefield

46.6%

Graveyard

9.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 24 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 18 decks
3 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 5 decks
4 Super Shredder 5 decks
5 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 4 decks
6 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 4 decks
7 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 3 decks
8 Zodiark, Umbral God 3 decks
9 Braids, Arisen Nightmare 2 decks
10 Dina, Essence Brewer 2 decks

Card text

Braids, Cabal Minion

Legendary Creature — Human Minion

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices an artifact, creature, or land of their choice.

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Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) · Rare · Illustrated by Eric Peterson

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.