Live Play Data

Deflecting Swat

· Instant · Commander Masters (CMM)

19%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

7483

Decks Running

3244

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=838

15%

61%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 4% (28 / 838 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

7486 brought · 1809 players

Brought to game

7486

Ever drawn

1598

Reached battlefield

838

Still on board at game end

≥ +6.7pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=777) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=4921).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=685).

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 +10.1pp; 95% confidence interval +6.7pp to +13.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1839 instances

3.8%

Library

3.5%

Battlefield

44.9%

Graveyard

8.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Deflecting Swat

Instant

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.

Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Izzy

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.