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Ensnared by the Mara

· Sorcery · Doctor Who (WHO)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

222

Decks Running

103

In Decks

697

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

60 instances

3.3%

Library

1.7%

Battlefield

61.7%

Graveyard

11.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Davros, Dalek Creator 15 decks
2 Dr. Eggman 11 decks
3 Deadpool, Trading Card 6 decks
4 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 6 decks
5 Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter 4 decks
6 Prosper, Tome-Bound 4 decks
7 Don Andres, the Renegade 3 decks
8 Magar of the Magic Strings 3 decks
9 The Lord of Pain 3 decks
10 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

222 brought · 98 players

Brought to game

222

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -16.5pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=34) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=142).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=18) — 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 -0.9pp; 95% confidence interval -16.5pp to +14.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=36

17%

14%

47%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 28% (6 / 36 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 14%

36 of 100 times cast 36%

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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.