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Mana Sculpt

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

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Times Brought

481

Decks Running

262

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 Sculpt

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

Final zone distribution

115 instances

0.9%

Library

7.0%

Battlefield

49.6%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 21 decks
2 Gandalf, Party Guest 20 decks
3 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 12 decks
4 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 11 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 8 decks
6 Alania, Divergent Storm 7 decks
7 Baral, Chief of Compliance 7 decks
8 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 7 decks
9 Vraska, Soul of Stone 7 decks
10 Hope Estheim 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

481 brought · 244 players

Brought to game

481

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.3pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=47) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=275).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=34).

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 +6.3pp; 95% confidence interval -1.3pp to +14.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=54

11%

59%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 6% (3 / 54 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.