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Defile

· Instant · Modern Horizons (MH1)

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Times Brought

1299

Decks Running

646

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

Defile

Instant

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Modern Horizons (MH1) · Common · Illustrated by Joe Slucher

Final zone distribution

278 instances

2.2%

Library

1.8%

Battlefield

64.4%

Graveyard

6.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Szarekh, the Silent King 91 decks
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 54 decks
3 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 40 decks
4 Marrow-Gnawer 27 decks
5 Imotekh the Stormlord 26 decks
6 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 24 decks
7 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 19 decks
8 Ghoulcaller Gisa 13 decks
9 Rat King, Verminister 11 decks
10 Trazyn the Infinite 11 decks

The "good card" funnel

1299 brought · 581 players

Brought to game

1299

Ever drawn

237

Reached battlefield

159

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.9pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=123) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=738).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=53).

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 +7.5pp; 95% confidence interval +2.9pp to +12.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=159

18%

40%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 1% (2 / 159 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.