Live Play Data
Pithing Needle
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Artifact
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Double Masters 2022 (2X2)
0%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
134
Decks Running
63
Median Cast Turn
5
Drawn → Played
66%
Format
First-cast turn
n=25
24%
T1
8%
T2
0%
T3
16%
T4
12%
T5
32%
T6-9
8%
T10+
Median
5
P25
2
· P75
6
· max
11
On curve
24%
(6 / 25 cast on T1)
Cast same turn as drawn
68%
The "good card" funnel
134 brought · 57 playersBrought to game
134
Ever drawn
38
Reached battlefield
25
Still on board at game end
17
Once cast, 68% 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.
≥ -24.7pp
Players who cast this card win 4% of the time (n=23) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=81).
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 -13.2pp; 95% confidence interval -24.7pp to -1.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
40 instances2.5%
Library
42.5%
Battlefield
17.5%
Graveyard
2.5%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Urza, Lord High Artificer
8 decks
-
2
Arcum Dagsson
2 decks
-
3
Child of Alara
2 decks
-
4
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
2 decks
-
5
Myrel, Shield of Argive
2 decks
-
6
Shorikai, Genesis Engine
2 decks
-
7
Atarka, World Render
1 decks
-
8
Athreos, God of Passage
1 decks
-
9
Atla Palani, Nest Tender
1 decks
-
10
Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
1 decks
Card text
Pithing Needle
Artifact
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Double Masters 2022 (2X2)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Anthony Palumbo
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.