Live Play Data

Cover of Darkness

· Enchantment · Onslaught (ONS)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

914

Decks Running

424

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=141

14%

10%

13%

40%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 18% (20 / 141 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

920 brought · 377 players

Brought to game

920

Ever drawn

201

Reached battlefield

141

Still on board at game end

101

Once cast, 71% 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.

≥ +2.7pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=129) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=584).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=52).

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 +10.5pp; 95% confidence interval +2.7pp to +18.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

214 instances

2.3%

Library

47.2%

Battlefield

22.0%

Graveyard

4.7%

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.