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· Instant · Time Spiral Remastered (TSR)

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Times Brought

179

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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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

47 instances

2.1%

Library

6.4%

Battlefield

31.9%

Graveyard

8.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Fire Lord Azula 7 decks
2 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 6 decks
3 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 6 decks
4 Baral, Chief of Compliance 3 decks
5 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 3 decks
6 The Ur-Dragon 3 decks
7 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 2 decks
8 Kraum, Ludevic's Opus 2 decks
9 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 2 decks
10 Sliver Overlord 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

180 brought · 78 players

Brought to game

180

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

15 of 100 times cast 15%

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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.