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Manabarbs

· Enchantment · Magic 2012 (M12)

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Times Brought

237

Decks Running

127

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

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

42 instances

4.8%

Library

50.0%

Battlefield

9.5%

Graveyard

11.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 25 decks
2 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 13 decks
3 Yurlok of Scorch Thrash 10 decks
4 Zo-Zu the Punisher 8 decks
5 Daredevil, Fearless Fighter 7 decks
6 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 6 decks
7 Kratos, God of War 5 decks
8 Mogis, God of Slaughter 5 decks
9 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 5 decks
10 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

237 brought · 121 players

Brought to game

237

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 72% 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.

≥ -10.0pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=24) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=155).

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 +1.0pp; 95% confidence interval -10.0pp to +11.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=29

10%

24%

17%

28%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 41% (7 / 29 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.