Live Play Data

Contractual Safeguard

· Instant · New Capenna Commander (NCC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

155

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=23

13%

70%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 0% (0 / 23 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

155 brought · 56 players

Brought to game

155

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=23) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=104).

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 +17.7pp; 95% confidence interval -1.2pp to +36.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

42 instances

4.8%

Library

2.4%

Battlefield

42.9%

Graveyard

9.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Contractual Safeguard

Instant

Addendum — If you cast this spell during your main phase, put a shield counter on a creature you control. (If it would be dealt damage or destroyed, remove a shield counter from it instead.) Choose a kind of counter on a creature you control. Put a counter of that kind on each other creature you control.

New Capenna Commander (NCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Gaboleps

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.