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Confounding Riddle

{2} {U} · Instant · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
0%
Decklist Inclusion
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Times Brought
59
Decks Running
40
In Decks
226
Decklist Inclusion
0%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1
Card text
Confounding Riddle card

Confounding Riddle

{2} {U}
Instant
Choose one — • Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. • Counter target spell unless its controller pays {4}.
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) · Uncommon · Illustrated by A. M. Sartor

Final zone distribution

29 instances

Not enough tracked games yet to show a reliable final-zone breakdown.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

59 brought · 40 players
Brought to game
59
Ever drawn
27
Reached battlefield
21
Still on board at game end
0
≥ -15.8pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=21) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=27).

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 +8.7pp; 95% confidence interval -15.8pp to +33.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=21
0%
T1
0%
T2
5%
T3
10%
T4
19%
T5
57%
T6-9
10%
T10+
Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14
On curve 5% (1 / 21 cast on T3)

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.