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Obscuring Haze

· Instant · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

612

Decks Running

321

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

Obscuring Haze

Instant

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Prevent all damage that would be dealt this turn by creatures your opponents control.

Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Campbell White

Final zone distribution

118 instances

5.1%

Library

4.2%

Battlefield

44.1%

Graveyard

5.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 15 decks
2 Beorn the Fierce 13 decks
3 Ms. Bumbleflower 13 decks
4 Fynn, the Fangbearer 12 decks
5 Blor the Impervious 11 decks
6 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 9 decks
7 Shroofus Sproutsire 9 decks
8 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 9 decks
9 Tifa Lockhart 7 decks
10 Toph, the First Metalbender 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

612 brought · 294 players

Brought to game

612

Ever drawn

109

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -9.2pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=51) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=382).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=42).

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 -1.9pp; 95% confidence interval -9.2pp to +5.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=59

10%

15%

46%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 19

On curve 7% (3 / 59 cast on T3) 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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.