Live Play Data

Mortify

· Instant · Foundations (FDN)

11%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1507

Decks Running

752

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=227

14%

53%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 19

On curve 6% (11 / 227 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

1510 brought · 690 players

Brought to game

1510

Ever drawn

348

Reached battlefield

227

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.6pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=206) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=943).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=101).

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 +5.7pp; 95% confidence interval -0.6pp to +12.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

397 instances

2.3%

Library

1.8%

Battlefield

61.5%

Graveyard

10.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 80 decks
2 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 59 decks
3 Edgar Markov 49 decks
4 Kaalia of the Vast 46 decks
5 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 38 decks
6 Marneus Calgar 34 decks
7 Ezio Auditore da Firenze 32 decks
8 Inquisitor Greyfax 28 decks
9 Sam, Loyal Attendant 28 decks
10 Teysa Karlov 20 decks

Card text

Mortify

Instant

Destroy target creature or enchantment.

Foundations (FDN) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Nils Hamm

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.