Live Play Data

Entrapment Maneuver

· Instant · Commander 2016 (C16)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

407

Decks Running

203

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

49%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=37

16%

59%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 11% (1 / 37 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 11%

The "good card" funnel

407 brought · 199 players

Brought to game

407

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +11.1pp

Players who cast this card win 51% of the time (n=32) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=268).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=32).

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 +27.8pp; 95% confidence interval +11.1pp to +44.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

82 instances

3.7%

Battlefield

48.8%

Graveyard

4.9%

Exile

42.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 67 decks
2 Inquisitor Greyfax 32 decks
3 Marneus Calgar 30 decks
4 Darien, King of Kjeldor 8 decks
5 Commissar Severina Raine 7 decks
6 Commander Mustard 6 decks
7 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 5 decks
8 Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed 5 decks
9 Aziza, Mage Tower Captain 4 decks
10 Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis 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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.