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Cryptic Command
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Instant
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Iconic Masters (IMA)
Times Brought
401
Decks Running
186
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format
Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.
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.
Iconic Masters (IMA)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Jason Rainville
Final zone distribution
111 instances3.6%
Library
7.2%
Battlefield
50.5%
Graveyard
7.2%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Namor the Sub-Mariner
12 decks
-
2
Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
9 decks
-
3
Baral, Chief of Compliance
7 decks
-
4
Talrand, Sky Summoner
6 decks
-
5
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
6 decks
-
6
Hylda of the Icy Crown
5 decks
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7
Spider-Man 2099
4 decks
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8
Alela, Cunning Conqueror
3 decks
-
9
Inalla, Archmage Ritualist
3 decks
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10
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
3 decks
The "good card" funnel
405 brought · 168 playersBrought to game
405
Ever drawn
106
Reached battlefield
63
Still on board at game end
8
≥ -1.7pp
Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=53) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=226).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=33).
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 +5.1pp; 95% confidence interval -1.7pp to +11.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=63
2%
T1
3%
T2
5%
T3
13%
T4
10%
T5
59%
T6-9
10%
T10+
Median
6
P25
5
· P75
8
· max
14
On curve
22%
(8 / 63 cast on T4)
Cast same turn as drawn
21%
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.