Live Play Data

Overprotect

· Instant · Bloomburrow (BLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

600

Decks Running

263

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

53%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=78

10%

15%

53%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 0% (0 / 78 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

600 brought · 242 players

Brought to game

600

Ever drawn

147

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.3pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=75) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=384).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=65).

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 +4.6pp; 95% confidence interval -6.3pp to +15.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

163 instances

2.5%

Library

7.4%

Battlefield

47.9%

Graveyard

8.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Shroofus Sproutsire 27 decks
2 Tifa Lockhart 17 decks
3 Wolverine, Best There Is 15 decks
4 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 13 decks
5 Xyris, the Writhing Storm 10 decks
6 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 8 decks
7 Anzrag, the Quake-Mole 7 decks
8 Fynn, the Fangbearer 7 decks
9 Ygra, Eater of All 6 decks
10 Clement, the Worrywort 5 decks

Card text

Overprotect

Instant

Target creature you control gets +3/+3 and gains trample, hexproof, and indestructible until end of turn.

Bloomburrow (BLB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Pavel Kolomeyets

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.