Live Play Data

Cover of Darkness

· Enchantment · Onslaught (ONS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1511

Decks Running

634

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=249

15%

12%

10%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 19

On curve 20% (37 / 249 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

1517 brought · 556 players

Brought to game

1517

Ever drawn

349

Reached battlefield

249

Still on board at game end

185

Once cast, 74% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +4.5pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=229) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=956).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=84).

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 +10.6pp; 95% confidence interval +4.5pp to +16.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

377 instances

2.1%

Library

49.1%

Battlefield

24.1%

Graveyard

4.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Cover of Darkness

Enchantment

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Creatures of the chosen type have fear. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Onslaught (ONS) · Rare · Illustrated by Kev Walker

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.