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· Instant · Battle for Zendikar (BFZ)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

395

Decks Running

195

In Decks

1448

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Dispel

Instant

Counter target instant spell.

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

Final zone distribution

108 instances

0.9%

Library

6.5%

Battlefield

32.4%

Graveyard

13.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 11 decks
2 Fire Lord Azula 8 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 8 decks
4 Urza, Lord High Artificer 8 decks
5 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 6 decks
6 Baral, Chief of Compliance 6 decks
7 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 6 decks
8 Vivi Ornitier 5 decks
9 Marneus Calgar 4 decks
10 Aang, at the Crossroads // Aang, Destined Savior 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

395 brought · 175 players

Brought to game

395

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -22.7pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=34) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=246).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=49) — 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 -9.7pp; 95% confidence interval -22.7pp to +3.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=40

13%

55%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 23

On curve 3% (1 / 40 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

40 of 100 times cast 40%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.