Live Play Data

Imp's Mischief

· Instant · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1236

Decks Running

607

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

37%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=101

16%

54%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 6% (4 / 101 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

1238 brought · 534 players

Brought to game

1238

Ever drawn

274

Reached battlefield

101

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=93) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=804).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=151).

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 +8.3pp; 95% confidence interval -1.6pp to +18.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

324 instances

1.9%

Library

3.4%

Battlefield

38.0%

Graveyard

11.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 21 decks
2 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 20 decks
3 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 16 decks
4 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 15 decks
5 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 14 decks
6 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 13 decks
7 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival 11 decks
8 Ardyn, the Usurper 10 decks
9 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 10 decks
10 Olinda the Oblivious 9 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.