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Live Play Data

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{U} {U} {R} · Instant · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)
2%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
698
Decks Running
269
Median Cast Turn
8
Drawn → Played
51%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=95
1%
T1
0%
T2
1%
T3
8%
T4
8%
T5
62%
T6-9
19%
T10+
Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13
On curve 2% (1 / 95 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

698 brought · 319 players
Brought to game
698
Ever drawn
188
Reached battlefield
95
Still on board at game end
11
≥ -2.6pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=87) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=425).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=83).

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 +6.9pp; 95% confidence interval -2.6pp to +16.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

214 instances
2.3%
Library
5.1%
Battlefield
43.9%
Graveyard
12.1%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
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{U} {U} {R}
Instant
Choose target spell, then flip a coin. If you win the flip, gain control of that spell and you may choose new targets for it. If you lose the flip, counter that spell.
Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Rare · Illustrated by Leonardo Santanna

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.