Live Play Data

Mana Drain

· Instant · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)

14%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2895

Decks Running

1364

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=447

13%

57%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 23

On curve 3% (12 / 447 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

2898 brought · 832 players

Brought to game

2898

Ever drawn

780

Reached battlefield

447

Still on board at game end

≥ +6.9pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=398) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1783).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 40% (n=297).

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 +11.6pp; 95% confidence interval +6.9pp to +16.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

866 instances

4.8%

Library

6.6%

Battlefield

46.7%

Graveyard

9.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Mana Drain

Instant

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C}

equal to that spell's mana value.

Double Masters 2022 (2X2) · Mythic · Illustrated by Raymond Swanland

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.