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Live Play Data

Mask of the Schemer

{2} {U} · Artifact — Equipment · New Capenna Commander (NCC)
0%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
185
Decks Running
64
Median Cast Turn
6.0
Drawn → Played
67%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=28
0%
T1
0%
T2
18%
T3
11%
T4
14%
T5
50%
T6-9
7%
T10+
Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12
On curve 18% (5 / 28 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

185 brought · 66 players
Brought to game
185
Ever drawn
42
Reached battlefield
28
Still on board at game end
21

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ -4.0pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=26) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=112).

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 +15.3pp; 95% confidence interval -4.0pp to +34.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

47 instances
44.7%
Battlefield
34.0%
Graveyard
2.1%
Exile
19.1%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Mask of the Schemer card

Mask of the Schemer

{2} {U}
Artifact — Equipment
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, it connives X, where X is the amount of damage it dealt to that player. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.) Equip {2}
New Capenna Commander (NCC) · Rare · Illustrated by James Paick

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.