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Mindbreak Trap

· Instant — Trap · Zendikar (ZEN)

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Times Brought

1359

Decks Running

604

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

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

Final zone distribution

322 instances

4.0%

Library

4.0%

Battlefield

33.2%

Graveyard

18.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 45 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 45 decks
3 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 36 decks
4 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 31 decks
5 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 25 decks
6 Urza, Lord High Artificer 22 decks
7 Thrasios, Triton Hero 19 decks
8 Sisay, Weatherlight Captain 17 decks
9 Kraum, Ludevic's Opus 16 decks
10 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 15 decks

The "good card" funnel

1361 brought · 475 players

Brought to game

1361

Ever drawn

271

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.2pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=64) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=726).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=134).

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 +6.4pp; 95% confidence interval +0.2pp to +12.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=88

16%

55%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 17% (2 / 88 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.