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Crimson Wisps

· Instant · Shadowmoor (SHM)

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Times Brought

262

Decks Running

159

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

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

Final zone distribution

46 instances

2.2%

Library

6.5%

Battlefield

63.0%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zada, Hedron Grinder 67 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 14 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 11 decks
4 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 9 decks
5 Feather, the Redeemed 8 decks
6 Krark, the Thumbless 7 decks
7 Urabrask // The Great Work 5 decks
8 Storm, Force of Nature 4 decks
9 Fire Lord Azula 3 decks
10 Ashling, Flame Dancer 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

262 brought · 151 players

Brought to game

262

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -9.1pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=20) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=160).

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 +2.3pp; 95% confidence interval -9.1pp to +13.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=32

31%

13%

38%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.5 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 9

On curve 6% (2 / 32 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

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.