Live Play Data

Inkshield

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2957

Decks Running

1263

Median Cast Turn

9.0

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=378

53%

T6-9

44%

T10+

Median 9.0 P25 8 · P75 11 · max 24

On curve 3% (5 / 378 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 17%

The "good card" funnel

2958 brought · 1066 players

Brought to game

2958

Ever drawn

728

Reached battlefield

378

Still on board at game end

≥ +17.3pp

Players who cast this card win 47% of the time (n=364) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1995).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=331).

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 +22.4pp; 95% confidence interval +17.3pp to +27.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

808 instances

2.2%

Library

9.7%

Battlefield

41.8%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Inkshield

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to you this turn. For each 1 damage prevented this way, create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Jarel Threat

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.