Live Play Data

Mindbreak Trap

· Instant — Trap · Zendikar (ZEN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

833

Decks Running

380

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

46%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=93

13%

20%

49%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 20% (12 / 93 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

833 brought · 308 players

Brought to game

833

Ever drawn

204

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.9pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=80) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=502).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 41% (n=106).

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 +6.2pp; 95% confidence interval -3.9pp to +16.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

243 instances

4.1%

Library

4.9%

Battlefield

35.4%

Graveyard

16.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 26 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 24 decks
3 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 18 decks
4 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 16 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 15 decks
6 Urza, Lord High Artificer 11 decks
7 Cosmic Spider-Man 10 decks
8 Marneus Calgar 10 decks
9 Tymna the Weaver 10 decks
10 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 10 decks

Card text

Mindbreak Trap

Instant — Trap

If an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, you may pay {0}

rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Exile any number of target spells.

Zendikar (ZEN) · Mythic · Illustrated by Christopher Moeller

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.