Live Play Data

Howling Mine

· Artifact · Commander 2016 (C16)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2256

Decks Running

1010

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=463

17%

13%

10%

34%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 27% (81 / 463 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 52%

The "good card" funnel

2256 brought · 815 players

Brought to game

2256

Ever drawn

661

Reached battlefield

463

Still on board at game end

363

Once cast, 78% 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.

≥ +0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=429) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=1347).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=180).

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 +4.4pp; 95% confidence interval +0.1pp to +8.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

725 instances

3.4%

Library

50.1%

Battlefield

20.1%

Graveyard

5.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Howling Mine

Artifact

At the beginning of each player's draw step, if this artifact is untapped, that player draws an additional card.

Commander 2016 (C16) · Rare · Illustrated by Ralph Horsley

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.