Live Play Data

Illusory Ambusher

· Creature — Cat Illusion · Commander 2020 (C20)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

192

Decks Running

104

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

40%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=18

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

192 brought · 100 players

Brought to game

192

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -20.0pp

Players who cast this card win 14% of the time (n=16) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=121).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=23).

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 -3.9pp; 95% confidence interval -20.0pp to +12.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

45 instances

11.1%

Library

11.1%

Battlefield

24.4%

Graveyard

53.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Illusory Ambusher

Creature — Cat Illusion

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Whenever this creature is dealt damage, draw that many cards.

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Commander 2020 (C20) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Steve Argyle

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.