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Times Brought

258

Decks Running

112

In Decks

757

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

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Instant

Counter target spell. If the spell is countered this way, exile it with three time counters on it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, they remove a time counter. When the last is removed, they may play it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Time Spiral Remastered (TSR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Svetlin Velinov

Final zone distribution

68 instances

7.4%

Library

5.9%

Battlefield

42.6%

Graveyard

11.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Fire Lord Azula 10 decks
2 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 5 decks
3 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 4 decks
4 Urza, Lord High Artificer 4 decks
5 Anowon, the Ruin Thief 3 decks
6 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 3 decks
7 Kwain, Itinerant Meddler 3 decks
8 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis 3 decks
9 The Tenth Doctor 3 decks
10 Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

258 brought · 106 players

Brought to game

258

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -15.8pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=31) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=173).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=30) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap -1.2pp; 95% confidence interval -15.8pp to +13.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=32

19%

50%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 3% (1 / 32 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

32 of 100 times cast 32%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.