Live Play Data

Into the Story

· Instant · Throne of Eldraine (ELD)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

365

Decks Running

184

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

45%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=37

49%

T6-9

46%

T10+

Median 9 P25 8 · P75 12 · max 17

On curve 22% (4 / 37 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

365 brought · 169 players

Brought to game

365

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.0pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=35) , vs 14% when it never left the library (n=228).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=43).

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 +15.4pp; 95% confidence interval +1.0pp to +29.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

87 instances

2.3%

Library

2.3%

Battlefield

54.0%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 109 decks
2 Phenax, God of Deception 8 decks
3 The Mindskinner 8 decks
4 Captain N'ghathrod 5 decks
5 Hope Estheim 5 decks
6 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 4 decks
7 Bruvac the Grandiloquent 3 decks
8 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn 3 decks
9 Saruman of Many Colors 3 decks
10 Whtz, the Bibliophile 3 decks

Card text

Into the Story

Instant

This spell costs {3}

less to cast if an opponent has seven or more cards in their graveyard. Draw four cards.

Throne of Eldraine (ELD) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Jason Rainville

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.