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Into the Story

· Instant · Throne of Eldraine (ELD)

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Times Brought

269

Decks Running

166

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

58 instances

6.9%

Battlefield

60.3%

Graveyard

10.3%

Exile

22.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 120 decks
2 Bruvac the Grandiloquent 4 decks
3 The Mindskinner 4 decks
4 Atemsis, All-Seeing 3 decks
5 Quandrix, the Proof 3 decks
6 Whtz, the Bibliophile 3 decks
7 Child of Alara 2 decks
8 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis 2 decks
9 The Wise Mothman 2 decks
10 Alania, Divergent Storm 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

269 brought · 161 players

Brought to game

269

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -12.2pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=23) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=139).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=15).

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 -1.8pp; 95% confidence interval -12.2pp to +8.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=31

39%

T6-9

55%

T10+

Median 10 P25 8 · P75 13 · max 19

On curve 19% (4 / 31 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 17%

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.