Live Play Data

Imp's Mischief

· Instant · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1771

Decks Running

842

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

36%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=137

15%

58%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 4% (4 / 137 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

1773 brought · 721 players

Brought to game

1773

Ever drawn

377

Reached battlefield

137

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=124) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1149).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=210).

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 +7.3pp; 95% confidence interval -1.1pp to +15.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

453 instances

2.4%

Library

3.1%

Battlefield

39.5%

Graveyard

10.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 33 decks
2 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 27 decks
3 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 23 decks
4 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 22 decks
5 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 22 decks
6 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 17 decks
7 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 16 decks
8 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival 14 decks
9 Marrow-Gnawer 13 decks
10 Witherbloom, the Balancer 13 decks

Card text

Imp's Mischief

Instant

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Thomas M. Baxa

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.