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Mortality Spear

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

269

Decks Running

147

In Decks

1100

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Mortality Spear

Instant

This spell costs {2}

less to cast if you gained life this turn. Destroy target nonland permanent.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by PINDURSKI

Final zone distribution

60 instances

3.3%

Battlefield

66.7%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

23.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

269 brought · 142 players

Brought to game

269

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -18.1pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=39) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=189).

Observed gap -5.4pp; 95% confidence interval -18.1pp to +7.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=41

15%

51%

T6-9

27%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 14

On curve 7% (3 / 41 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

41 of 100 times cast 41%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.