Live Play Data

Cryptic Command

· Instant · Star Trek Commander (TRC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

965

Decks Running

467

Median Cast Turn

7.5

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=152

14%

59%

T6-9

24%

T10+

Median 7.5 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 19

On curve 3% (4 / 152 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

965 brought · 417 players

Brought to game

965

Ever drawn

264

Reached battlefield

152

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.3pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=143) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=590).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=100).

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 +10.4pp; 95% confidence interval +2.3pp to +18.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

298 instances

3.7%

Library

2.0%

Battlefield

54.4%

Graveyard

8.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Cryptic Command

Instant

Choose two — • Counter target spell. • Return target permanent to its owner's hand. • Tap all creatures your opponents control. • Draw a card.

Star Trek Commander (TRC) · Rare · Illustrated by Randy Gallegos

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.