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Mana Sculpt card art
Live Play Data

Mana Sculpt

{1} {U} {U} · Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)
2%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
1062
Decks Running
485
Median Cast Turn
7
Drawn → Played
51%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=143
1%
T1
0%
T2
1%
T3
5%
T4
11%
T5
64%
T6-9
17%
T10+
Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 16
On curve 2% (1 / 143 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

1062 brought · 438 players
Brought to game
1062
Ever drawn
279
Reached battlefield
143
Still on board at game end
14
≥ +3.8pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=138) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=692).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=131).

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 +11.9pp; 95% confidence interval +3.8pp to +20.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

310 instances
2.6%
Library
4.5%
Battlefield
45.2%
Graveyard
10.6%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Mana Sculpt card

Mana Sculpt

{1} {U} {U}
Instant
Counter target spell. If you control a Wizard, add an amount of {C} equal to the amount of mana spent to cast that spell at the beginning of your next main phase.
Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Rare · Illustrated by Cristi Balanescu

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.