Card Preview

Powerbalance

· Enchantment · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Buy on TCGplayer

Times Brought

210

Decks Running

123

In Decks

—

Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

46 instances

67.4%

Battlefield

10.9%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

17.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 31 decks
2 Winota, Joiner of Forces 8 decks
3 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 5 decks
4 Kratos, God of War 5 decks
5 Norin the Wary 5 decks
6 Neera, Wild Mage 3 decks
7 Smaug the Magnificent 3 decks
8 Deadpool, Trading Card 2 decks
9 Elsha of the Infinite 2 decks
10 Flubs, the Fool 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

210 brought · 120 players

Brought to game

210

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 97% 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.

≥ -9.7pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=26) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=126).

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 +1.0pp; 95% confidence interval -9.7pp to +11.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=32

16%

25%

13%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.5 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 9

On curve 41% (8 / 32 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

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.