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Cover of Darkness

· Enchantment · Onslaught (ONS)

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Times Brought

621

Decks Running

285

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

132 instances

1.5%

Library

59.8%

Battlefield

10.6%

Graveyard

4.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

622 brought · 256 players

Brought to game

622

Ever drawn

124

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 84% 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.

≥ -8.2pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=70) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=334).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=22).

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 -1.9pp; 95% confidence interval -8.2pp to +4.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=94

20%

14%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 11% (6 / 94 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

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.