Live Play Data

Ensnared by the Mara

· Sorcery · Doctor Who (WHO)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

412

Decks Running

181

Median Cast Turn

6.5

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=72

11%

13%

58%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 19% (8 / 72 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

412 brought · 169 players

Brought to game

412

Ever drawn

103

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.3pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=67) , vs 31% when it never left the library (n=257).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 39% (n=29).

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 +10.1pp; 95% confidence interval -2.3pp to +22.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

111 instances

3.6%

Library

3.6%

Battlefield

57.7%

Graveyard

11.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Davros, Dalek Creator 24 decks
2 Dr. Eggman 21 decks
3 Deadpool, Trading Card 11 decks
4 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 8 decks
5 Prosper, Tome-Bound 7 decks
6 The Lord of Pain 6 decks
7 Magar of the Magic Strings 5 decks
8 Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter 5 decks
9 Vaan, Street Thief 5 decks
10 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 4 decks

Card text

Ensnared by the Mara

Sorcery

Each opponent faces a villainous choice — They exile cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card, then you may cast that card without paying its mana cost, or that player exiles the top four cards of their library and Ensnared by the Mara deals damage equal to the total mana value of those exiled cards to that player.

Doctor Who (WHO) · Rare · Illustrated by Andrey Kuzinskiy

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.