Live Play Data

Mana Tithe

· Instant · Time Spiral Remastered (TSR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

838

Decks Running

370

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=94

15%

11%

50%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 2% (2 / 94 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

838 brought · 334 players

Brought to game

838

Ever drawn

174

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -17.9pp

Players who cast this card win 17% of the time (n=91) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=564).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=69).

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 -9.7pp; 95% confidence interval -17.9pp to -1.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

201 instances

4.5%

Library

3.0%

Battlefield

50.7%

Graveyard

10.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dack Fayden, Helping Hand 17 decks
2 Giada, Font of Hope 17 decks
3 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 13 decks
4 Darien, King of Kjeldor 10 decks
5 Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice 9 decks
6 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings 7 decks
7 Myrel, Shield of Argive 7 decks
8 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd 6 decks
9 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 5 decks
10 Edgar Markov 5 decks

Card text

Mana Tithe

Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}

Time Spiral Remastered (TSR) · Common · Illustrated by Martina Pilcerova

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.