Live Play Data

Gift of the Viper

· Instant · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

925

Decks Running

408

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=130

15%

49%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 1% (1 / 130 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

925 brought · 381 players

Brought to game

925

Ever drawn

198

Reached battlefield

130

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=116) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=621).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=63).

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 +6.1pp; 95% confidence interval -2.4pp to +14.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

217 instances

3.7%

Library

4.1%

Battlefield

63.1%

Graveyard

2.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave 32 decks
2 Fynn, the Fangbearer 24 decks
3 Me, the Immortal 16 decks
4 Wolverine, Best There Is 12 decks
5 Blor the Impervious 11 decks
6 Blue, Loyal Raptor 9 decks
7 Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer 9 decks
8 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 9 decks
9 Tifa Lockhart 9 decks
10 Gargos, Vicious Watcher 8 decks

Card text

Gift of the Viper

Instant

Put a +1/+1 counter, a reach counter, and a deathtouch counter on target creature. Untap it.

Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Common · Illustrated by Madeline Boni

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.