Live Play Data

Nine Lives

· Enchantment · Core Set 2021 (M21)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

268

Decks Running

134

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=52

10%

56%

T6-9

23%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 10% (5 / 52 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

268 brought · 125 players

Brought to game

268

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 65% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -4.1pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=52) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=164).

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

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 +9.6pp; 95% confidence interval -4.1pp to +23.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

88 instances

1.1%

Library

38.6%

Battlefield

25.0%

Graveyard

9.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Nine Lives

Enchantment

Hexproof If a source would deal damage to you, prevent that damage and put an incarnation counter on this enchantment. When there are nine or more incarnation counters on this enchantment, exile it. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, you lose the game.

Core Set 2021 (M21) · Rare · Illustrated by Paul Scott Canavan

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.