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Mental Misstep

· Instant · New Phyrexia (NPH)

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Times Brought

799

Decks Running

383

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

Mental Misstep

Instant

(

can be paid with either {U}

or 2 life.) Counter target spell with mana value 1.

New Phyrexia (NPH) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Erica Yang

Final zone distribution

194 instances

3.1%

Library

4.1%

Battlefield

33.5%

Graveyard

17.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 33 decks
2 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 23 decks
3 Urza, Lord High Artificer 22 decks
4 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 21 decks
5 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 17 decks
6 Thrasios, Triton Hero 12 decks
7 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy 11 decks
8 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 10 decks
9 Kraum, Ludevic's Opus 10 decks
10 Najeela, the Blade-Blossom 10 decks

The "good card" funnel

800 brought · 311 players

Brought to game

800

Ever drawn

167

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +7.0pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=63) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=435).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=67).

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 +12.8pp; 95% confidence interval +7.0pp to +18.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=77

16%

19%

14%

25%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 16

On curve 16% (12 / 77 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.