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Mana Drain

· Instant · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)

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Times Brought

1837

Decks Running

934

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

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

Final zone distribution

424 instances

2.4%

Library

6.6%

Battlefield

43.9%

Graveyard

8.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

1837 brought · 646 players

Brought to game

1837

Ever drawn

381

Reached battlefield

199

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=163) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1111).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=145).

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 +3.5pp; 95% confidence interval -0.5pp to +7.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=199

15%

12%

53%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 5% (8 / 199 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

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.