Live Play Data

Dispel

· Instant · Battle for Zendikar (BFZ)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1267

Decks Running

591

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

42%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=135

12%

11%

51%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 23

On curve 2% (3 / 135 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

1268 brought · 519 players

Brought to game

1268

Ever drawn

321

Reached battlefield

135

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.5pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=118) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=776).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=167).

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 -0.8pp; 95% confidence interval -8.5pp to +6.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

375 instances

2.1%

Library

3.7%

Battlefield

36.5%

Graveyard

13.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 29 decks
2 Urza, Lord High Artificer 26 decks
3 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 23 decks
4 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 21 decks
5 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 17 decks
6 Baral, Chief of Compliance 17 decks
7 Fire Lord Azula 15 decks
8 Zur the Enchanter 14 decks
9 Niv-Mizzet, Parun 13 decks
10 Vivi Ornitier 13 decks

Card text

Dispel

Instant

Counter target instant spell.

Battle for Zendikar (BFZ) · Common · Illustrated by Chase Stone

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.