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Live Play Data

Darksteel Mutation

{1} {W} · Enchantment — Aura · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
4%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
3180
Decks Running
1356
Median Cast Turn
7
Drawn → Played
74%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=589
1%
T1
2%
T2
6%
T3
11%
T4
15%
T5
51%
T6-9
15%
T10+
Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19
On curve 2% (9 / 589 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

3183 brought · 1126 players
Brought to game
3183
Ever drawn
798
Reached battlefield
589
Still on board at game end
273

Once cast, 46% 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.

≥ +1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=560) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=2121).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=198).

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 +5.7pp; 95% confidence interval +1.7pp to +9.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

877 instances
3.2%
Library
31.1%
Battlefield
37.7%
Graveyard
6.7%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Darksteel Mutation card

Darksteel Mutation

{1} {W}
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature Enchanted creature is an Insect artifact creature with base power and toughness 0/1 and has indestructible, and it loses all other abilities, card types, and creature types.
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Daniel Ljunggren

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.