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Ghostly Prison

· Enchantment · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

1004

Decks Running

550

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

235 instances

3.0%

Library

54.5%

Battlefield

19.1%

Graveyard

5.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 40 decks
2 Killian, Decisive Mentor 31 decks
3 Shiko and Narset, Unified 17 decks
4 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 14 decks
5 Giada, Font of Hope 13 decks
6 Go-Shintai of Life's Origin 13 decks
7 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 13 decks
8 Ms. Bumbleflower 12 decks
9 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 10 decks
10 Hope Estheim 10 decks

The "good card" funnel

1007 brought · 460 players

Brought to game

1007

Ever drawn

215

Reached battlefield

172

Still on board at game end

128

Once cast, 74% 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.

≥ -0.2pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=134) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=600).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=39) — 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 +4.3pp; 95% confidence interval -0.2pp to +8.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=172

16%

15%

16%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 26% (28 / 172 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

1736 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.