Live Play Data

Entrapment Maneuver

· Instant · Commander 2016 (C16)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

590

Decks Running

272

Median Cast Turn

7.5

Drawn → Played

51%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=62

15%

50%

T6-9

27%

T10+

Median 7.5 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 23

On curve 8% (2 / 62 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 8%

The "good card" funnel

590 brought · 268 players

Brought to game

590

Ever drawn

121

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +8.0pp

Players who cast this card win 44% of the time (n=53) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=374).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=50).

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 +20.9pp; 95% confidence interval +8.0pp to +33.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

134 instances

3.7%

Battlefield

47.8%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

41.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 89 decks
2 Inquisitor Greyfax 50 decks
3 Marneus Calgar 43 decks
4 Darien, King of Kjeldor 8 decks
5 Commander Mustard 7 decks
6 Commissar Severina Raine 7 decks
7 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 6 decks
8 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis 5 decks
9 Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed 5 decks
10 Aziza, Mage Tower Captain 4 decks

Card text

Entrapment Maneuver

Instant

Target player sacrifices an attacking creature of their choice. You create X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens, where X is that creature's toughness.

Commander 2016 (C16) · Rare · Illustrated by Filip Burburan

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.