Live Play Data

Countersquall

· Instant · Ultimate Masters (UMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

420

Decks Running

198

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

49%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=46

67%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 0% (0 / 46 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

The "good card" funnel

420 brought · 190 players

Brought to game

420

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -10.6pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=42) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=264).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=40).

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 +0.5pp; 95% confidence interval -10.6pp to +11.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

113 instances

4.4%

Library

3.5%

Battlefield

52.2%

Graveyard

4.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One 16 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 14 decks
3 Lord of the Nazgûl 10 decks
4 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 6 decks
5 Satoru Umezawa 6 decks
6 Alela, Cunning Conqueror 5 decks
7 Niv-Mizzet Reborn 5 decks
8 Toxrill, the Corrosive 5 decks
9 Vren, the Relentless 5 decks
10 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 5 decks

Card text

Countersquall

Instant

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.

Ultimate Masters (UMA) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Anthony Francisco

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.