Live Play Data

Into the Story

· Instant · Throne of Eldraine (ELD)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

525

Decks Running

262

Median Cast Turn

9.5

Drawn → Played

51%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=62

47%

T6-9

50%

T10+

Median 9.5 P25 8 · P75 11 · max 17

On curve 18% (5 / 62 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

525 brought · 243 players

Brought to game

525

Ever drawn

121

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=55) , vs 14% when it never left the library (n=317).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=54).

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 +13.3pp; 95% confidence interval +2.0pp to +24.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

129 instances

3.1%

Library

3.1%

Battlefield

54.3%

Graveyard

7.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 166 decks
2 The Mindskinner 11 decks
3 Phenax, God of Deception 8 decks
4 Hope Estheim 6 decks
5 Captain N'ghathrod 5 decks
6 Whtz, the Bibliophile 5 decks
7 Homer, the Hermit 4 decks
8 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 4 decks
9 Saruman of Many Colors 4 decks
10 Bruvac the Grandiloquent 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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.