Live Play Data

Mask of the Schemer

· Artifact — Equipment · New Capenna Commander (NCC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

131

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=19

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

131 brought · 47 players

Brought to game

131

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -7.1pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=18) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=83).

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 +16.2pp; 95% confidence interval -7.1pp to +39.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

33 instances

42.4%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

3.0%

Exile

21.2%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 10 decks
2 Ratonhnhaké꞉ton 8 decks
3 Kamiz, Obscura Oculus 5 decks
4 Ultron, Unlimited 5 decks
5 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 3 decks
6 Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain 1 decks
7 Captain America, First Avenger 1 decks
8 Doctor Octopus, Master Planner 1 decks
9 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 1 decks
10 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 1 decks

Card text

Mask of the Schemer

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