Live Play Data

Inkshield

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

10%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

695

Decks Running

392

Median Cast Turn

9.0

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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%

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).

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 +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.

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

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.