Live Play Data

Mages' Contest

· Instant · Invasion (INV)

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Times Brought

107

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

45%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=10

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

108 brought · 42 players

Brought to game

108

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Final zone distribution

28 instances

3.6%

Library

14.3%

Battlefield

35.7%

Graveyard

10.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 5 decks
2 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos 2 decks
3 Greven, Predator Captain 2 decks
4 Aisha of Sparks and Smoke 1 decks
5 Ashaya's Enduring Bond 1 decks
6 Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence 1 decks
7 Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder 1 decks
8 Cormela, Glamour Thief 1 decks
9 Daredevil, Fearless Fighter 1 decks
10 Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest 1 decks

Card text

Mages' Contest

Instant

You and target spell's controller bid life. You start the bidding with a bid of 1. In turn order, each player may top the high bid. The bidding ends if the high bid stands. The high bidder loses life equal to the high bid. If you win the bidding, counter that spell.

Invasion (INV) · Rare · Illustrated by Bradley Williams

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.