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Live Play Data

Powerbalance

{R} {R} · Enchantment · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
570
Decks Running
229
Median Cast Turn
5
Drawn → Played
75%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=109
8%
T1
15%
T2
14%
T3
10%
T4
13%
T5
35%
T6-9
6%
T10+
Median 5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 12
On curve 23% (16 / 109 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 46%

The "good card" funnel

570 brought · 207 players
Brought to game
570
Ever drawn
145
Reached battlefield
109
Still on board at game end
88

Once cast, 81% 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.

≥ -0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=104) , vs 32% when it never left the library (n=359).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=30).

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 +10.1pp; 95% confidence interval -0.1pp to +20.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

154 instances
4.5%
Library
57.1%
Battlefield
16.2%
Graveyard
3.9%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Powerbalance card

Powerbalance

{R} {R}
Enchantment
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may reveal the top card of your library. If you do, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost if the two spells have the same mana value.
Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Rare · Illustrated by Steve Ellis

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.