Live Play Data

Inkshield

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2402

Decks Running

1053

Median Cast Turn

9.0

Drawn → Played

53%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=318

58%

T6-9

37%

T10+

Median 9.0 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 23

On curve 5% (10 / 318 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 17%

The "good card" funnel

2403 brought · 906 players

Brought to game

2403

Ever drawn

598

Reached battlefield

318

Still on board at game end

≥ +18.4pp

Players who cast this card win 49% of the time (n=296) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1523).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=254).

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 +24.1pp; 95% confidence interval +18.4pp to +29.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

660 instances

2.1%

Library

10.5%

Battlefield

42.1%

Graveyard

6.4%

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 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.