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Deflecting Swat

· Instant · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

5951

Decks Running

2909

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

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

Final zone distribution

1216 instances

3.9%

Library

4.4%

Battlefield

34.3%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 84 decks
2 Kaalia of the Vast 79 decks
3 Krenko, Mob Boss 66 decks
4 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 49 decks
5 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 47 decks
6 Fire Lord Azula 45 decks
7 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 41 decks
8 Sauron, the Dark Lord 38 decks
9 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 37 decks
10 Kratos, God of War 36 decks

The "good card" funnel

5954 brought · 1758 players

Brought to game

5954

Ever drawn

1093

Reached battlefield

462

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=370) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=3550).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=482).

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 +2.3pp; 95% confidence interval -0.3pp to +4.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=462

10%

16%

55%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 21

On curve 9% (28 / 462 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.