Live Play Data

Confusticate and Bebother

· Instant · The Hobbit (HOB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

294

Decks Running

134

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=43

12%

63%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 17

On curve 7% (2 / 43 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 46%

The "good card" funnel

294 brought · 123 players

Brought to game

294

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +3.3pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=36) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=188).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=30).

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 +18.5pp; 95% confidence interval +3.3pp to +33.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

83 instances

4.8%

Library

4.8%

Battlefield

49.4%

Graveyard

7.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Thranduil, the Elvenking 11 decks
2 Bard, King of Dale 9 decks
3 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 6 decks
4 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 5 decks
5 Riku of Many Paths 5 decks
6 Sauron, the Dark Lord 5 decks
7 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 4 decks
8 Gandalf, Party Guest 4 decks
9 Saruman, the White Hand 4 decks
10 Whtz, the Bibliophile 4 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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.