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Live Play Data

Kitsune's Technique

{4} {U} {U} · Instant · Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMT)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
153
Decks Running
81
Median Cast Turn
5.0
Drawn → Played
62%
Format

First-cast turn

n=24
4%
T1
0%
T2
8%
T3
21%
T4
21%
T5
42%
T6-9
4%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 11
On curve 63% (2 / 24 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

153 brought · 75 players
Brought to game
153
Ever drawn
39
Reached battlefield
24
Still on board at game end
1
≥ -21.5pp

Players who cast this card win 8% of the time (n=21) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=91).

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 -8.2pp; 95% confidence interval -21.5pp to +5.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

49 instances
2.0%
Battlefield
59.2%
Graveyard
12.2%
Exile
26.5%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Kitsune's Technique card

Kitsune's Technique

{4} {U} {U}
Instant
Sneak {1}{U} (You may cast this spell for {1}{U} if you also return an unblocked attacker you control to hand during the declare blockers step.) Target opponent mills half their library, rounded up.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMT) · Rare · Illustrated by Rose Benjamin

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.