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Manabarbs

· Enchantment · Magic 2012 (M12)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

290

Decks Running

164

In Decks

882

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Manabarbs

Enchantment

Whenever a player taps a land for mana, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Magic 2012 (M12) · Rare · Illustrated by Jeff Miracola

Final zone distribution

61 instances

3.3%

Library

41.0%

Battlefield

24.6%

Graveyard

6.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 40 decks
2 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 20 decks
3 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 17 decks
4 Daredevil, Fearless Fighter 9 decks
5 Yurlok of Scorch Thrash 9 decks
6 The Lord of Pain 7 decks
7 Zo-Zu the Punisher 7 decks
8 Mogis, God of Slaughter 6 decks
9 Norin the Wary 6 decks
10 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

290 brought · 154 players

Brought to game

290

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 66% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -10.8pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=37) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=206).

Observed gap +3.6pp; 95% confidence interval -10.8pp to +18.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=38

21%

24%

47%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 24% (8 / 38 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

38 of 100 times cast 38%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.