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Inkshield

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

695

Decks Running

392

In Decks

2533

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

185 instances

1.1%

Library

12.4%

Battlefield

42.7%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

696 brought · 353 players

Brought to game

696

Ever drawn

168

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +12.9pp

Players who cast this card win 50% of the time (n=89) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=450).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=67) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +23.2pp; 95% confidence interval +12.9pp to +33.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=92

52%

T6-9

42%

T10+

Median 9.0 P25 8 · P75 11 · max 16

On curve 5% (4 / 92 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 13%

92 of 100 times cast 92%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.