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Gift of the Viper

· Instant · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

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Times Brought

583

Decks Running

273

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

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

Final zone distribution

119 instances

2.5%

Library

5.9%

Battlefield

60.5%

Graveyard

2.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Fynn, the Fangbearer 21 decks
2 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave 14 decks
3 Helga, Skittish Seer 12 decks
4 Tifa Lockhart 11 decks
5 Me, the Immortal 10 decks
6 Blor the Impervious 8 decks
7 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian 8 decks
8 Blue, Loyal Raptor 7 decks
9 Aphelia, Viper Whisperer 6 decks
10 Indominus Rex, Alpha 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

583 brought · 255 players

Brought to game

583

Ever drawn

113

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.6pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=64) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=346).

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

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 +2.0pp; 95% confidence interval -4.6pp to +8.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=77

19%

16%

42%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 21

On curve 0% (0 / 77 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

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.