Live Play Data

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· Instant · Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMT)

16%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

7982

Decks Running

3755

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

50%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=993

14%

55%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 19

On curve 2% (15 / 993 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

7991 brought · 2459 players

Brought to game

7991

Ever drawn

1977

Reached battlefield

993

Still on board at game end

≥ +5.4pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=908) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=5019).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=879).

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 +8.4pp; 95% confidence interval +5.4pp to +11.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

2215 instances

4.1%

Library

2.8%

Battlefield

47.7%

Graveyard

6.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sai, Master Thopterist 77 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 60 decks
3 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 54 decks
4 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 44 decks
5 Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom 43 decks
6 Vren, the Relentless 40 decks
7 Sauron, the Dark Lord 38 decks
8 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One 37 decks
9 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 35 decks
10 Fire Lord Azula 34 decks

Card text

Negate

Instant

Counter target noncreature spell.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMT) · Common · Illustrated by Ryan Valle

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.