Live Play Data

Condescend

· Instant · Iconic Masters (IMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

335

Decks Running

144

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=40

18%

57%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 20

Cast same turn as drawn 20%

The "good card" funnel

335 brought · 133 players

Brought to game

335

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -9.3pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=38) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=223).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=35).

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 +4.9pp; 95% confidence interval -9.3pp to +19.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

86 instances

5.8%

Library

3.5%

Battlefield

51.2%

Graveyard

4.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Condescend

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}

. Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Iconic Masters (IMA) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Kieran Yanner

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.