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Cover of Darkness

· Enchantment · Onslaught (ONS)

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Times Brought

1394

Decks Running

521

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

299 instances

2.3%

Library

57.9%

Battlefield

13.0%

Graveyard

3.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ezio Auditore da Firenze 79 decks
2 Edgar Markov 62 decks
3 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 41 decks
4 Edward Kenway 19 decks
5 Vren, the Relentless 15 decks
6 Aphelia, Viper Whisperer 13 decks
7 Chief of the Wilds 13 decks
8 Lord of the Nazgûl 12 decks
9 Marrow-Gnawer 11 decks
10 Rat King, Verminister 11 decks

The "good card" funnel

1395 brought · 457 players

Brought to game

1395

Ever drawn

283

Reached battlefield

202

Still on board at game end

173

Once cast, 86% 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.

≥ -4.2pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=151) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=760).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=64).

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 +0.2pp; 95% confidence interval -4.2pp to +4.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=202

12%

13%

15%

14%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 12% (25 / 202 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

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.