Live Play Data

Ghostly Prison

· Enchantment · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

12%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

5009

Decks Running

2331

Median Cast Turn

5.5

Drawn → Played

79%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1060

15%

14%

15%

38%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 21% (162 / 1060 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

5009 brought · 1672 players

Brought to game

5009

Ever drawn

1342

Reached battlefield

1060

Still on board at game end

741

Once cast, 70% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=968) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=3035).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=250).

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 +4.1pp; 95% confidence interval +1.1pp to +7.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1474 instances

2.5%

Library

50.3%

Battlefield

22.0%

Graveyard

8.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Ghostly Prison

Enchantment

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2}

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Wayne England

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.