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Live Play Data

Permission Denied

{W} {U} · Instant · Jurassic World Collection (REX)
2%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
280
Decks Running
126
Median Cast Turn
7.0
Drawn → Played
52%
Format

First-cast turn

n=40
0%
T1
3%
T2
3%
T3
3%
T4
5%
T5
65%
T6-9
23%
T10+
Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13
On curve 3% (1 / 40 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

280 brought · 126 players
Brought to game
280
Ever drawn
77
Reached battlefield
40
Still on board at game end
5
≥ -12.3pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=37) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=159).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 45% (n=32).

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 +2.5pp; 95% confidence interval -12.3pp to +17.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

86 instances
3.5%
Library
5.8%
Battlefield
45.3%
Graveyard
7.0%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Permission Denied card

Permission Denied

{W} {U}
Instant
Counter target noncreature spell. Your opponents can't cast noncreature spells this turn.
Jurassic World Collection (REX) · Rare · Illustrated by Leonardo Santanna

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.