Live Play Data

Confusticate and Bebother

· Instant · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

200

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=31

10%

68%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 17

On curve 6% (1 / 31 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 52%

The "good card" funnel

200 brought · 84 players

Brought to game

200

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +5.4pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=25) , vs 14% when it never left the library (n=131).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=16).

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 +23.3pp; 95% confidence interval +5.4pp to +41.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

52 instances

3.8%

Library

3.8%

Battlefield

57.7%

Graveyard

5.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Thranduil, the Elvenking 10 decks
2 Bard, King of Dale 7 decks
3 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 4 decks
4 Riku of Many Paths 4 decks
5 Saruman, the White Hand 4 decks
6 Sauron, the Dark Lord 3 decks
7 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 3 decks
8 Baral, Chief of Compliance 2 decks
9 Brago, King Eternal 2 decks
10 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 2 decks

Card text

Confusticate and Bebother

Instant

Choose one — • Counter target spell unless its controller pays {4}

. • Draw two cards, then discard a card.

The Hobbit (HOB) · Common · Illustrated by Colin Boyer

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.