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Mortality Spear

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

523

Decks Running

260

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

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

111 instances

1.8%

Library

6.3%

Battlefield

55.0%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

524 brought · 256 players

Brought to game

524

Ever drawn

107

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.3pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=54) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=258).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=25).

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 -1.1pp; 95% confidence interval -8.3pp to +6.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=72

15%

63%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 20

On curve 14% (5 / 72 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.