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Powerbalance

· Enchantment · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

212

Decks Running

In Decks

731

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Powerbalance

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

Final zone distribution

61 instances

4.9%

Library

52.5%

Battlefield

21.3%

Graveyard

4.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 11 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 11 decks
3 Norin the Wary 7 decks
4 The Lord of Pain 4 decks
5 Winota, Joiner of Forces 4 decks
6 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos 2 decks
7 Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh // Chandra, Roaring Flame 2 decks
8 Elsha of the Infinite 2 decks
9 Ian Malcolm, Chaotician 2 decks
10 Imodane, the Pyrohammer 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

212 brought · 91 players

Brought to game

212

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 82% 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.

≥ -11.1pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=36) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=135).

Observed gap +5.2pp; 95% confidence interval -11.1pp to +21.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=39

15%

13%

15%

28%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 18% (6 / 39 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 50%

39 of 100 times cast 39%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.