Live Play Data

Mindbreak Trap

· Instant — Trap · Zendikar (ZEN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1599

Decks Running

684

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

41%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=158

15%

20%

47%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 26% (24 / 158 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

1599 brought · 532 players

Brought to game

1599

Ever drawn

381

Reached battlefield

158

Still on board at game end

≥ +3.4pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=140) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=948).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 39% (n=206).

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 +11.3pp; 95% confidence interval +3.4pp to +19.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

457 instances

5.5%

Library

4.8%

Battlefield

34.8%

Graveyard

15.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 43 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 38 decks
3 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 34 decks
4 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 28 decks
5 Urza, Lord High Artificer 23 decks
6 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 22 decks
7 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 22 decks
8 Sisay, Weatherlight Captain 20 decks
9 Marneus Calgar 17 decks
10 Tymna the Weaver 17 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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.