Live Play Data

Crimson Wisps

· Instant · Shadowmoor (SHM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

309

Decks Running

210

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=49

16%

27%

47%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 2% (1 / 49 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

309 brought · 195 players

Brought to game

309

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -17.3pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=43) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=192).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=18).

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 -4.4pp; 95% confidence interval -17.3pp to +8.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

81 instances

3.7%

Library

6.2%

Battlefield

58.0%

Graveyard

16.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zada, Hedron Grinder 60 decks
2 Feather, the Redeemed 15 decks
3 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 15 decks
4 Krenko, Mob Boss 11 decks
5 Krark, the Thumbless 7 decks
6 Urabrask // The Great Work 7 decks
7 Fire Lord Azula 6 decks
8 Loki, God of Lies 5 decks
9 Muddle, the Ever-Changing 5 decks
10 Vivi Ornitier 5 decks

Card text

Crimson Wisps

Instant

Target creature becomes red and gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and {T}

this turn.) Draw a card.

Shadowmoor (SHM) · Common · Illustrated by Jim Nelson

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.