Live Play Data

Mindcrank

· Artifact · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1721

Decks Running

726

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=280

20%

11%

10%

16%

34%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 20

On curve 24% (55 / 280 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

1721 brought · 603 players

Brought to game

1721

Ever drawn

383

Reached battlefield

280

Still on board at game end

203

Once cast, 73% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -4.8pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=256) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=1104).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=91).

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 +0.6pp; 95% confidence interval -4.8pp to +5.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

472 instances

3.6%

Library

43.0%

Battlefield

29.0%

Graveyard

7.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Wise Mothman 119 decks
2 Captain N'ghathrod 109 decks
3 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 46 decks
4 Phenax, God of Deception 24 decks
5 Umbris, Fear Manifest 24 decks
6 Hope Estheim 22 decks
7 The Mindskinner 22 decks
8 Syr Konrad, the Grim 20 decks
9 Bruvac the Grandiloquent 18 decks
10 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 17 decks

Card text

Mindcrank

Artifact

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Chris Rahn

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.