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Mortality Spear

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

194

Decks Running

110

In Decks

826

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

46 instances

4.3%

Battlefield

63.0%

Graveyard

8.7%

Exile

23.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

194 brought · 110 players

Brought to game

194

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -16.3pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=31) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=137).

Observed gap -1.4pp; 95% confidence interval -16.3pp to +13.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=32

19%

50%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 14

On curve 6% (2 / 32 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

32 of 100 times cast 32%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 630,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.