Live Play Data

Rebuff the Wicked

· Instant · Time Spiral Remastered (TSR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1654

Decks Running

659

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

38%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=135

56%

T6-9

30%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 23

On curve 0% (0 / 135 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 11%

The "good card" funnel

1655 brought · 583 players

Brought to game

1655

Ever drawn

355

Reached battlefield

135

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.3pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=114) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1086).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=189).

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 +11.4pp; 95% confidence interval +2.3pp to +20.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

388 instances

4.1%

Library

4.9%

Battlefield

34.8%

Graveyard

5.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 62 decks
2 Giada, Font of Hope 51 decks
3 Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice 28 decks
4 Kaalia of the Vast 20 decks
5 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 19 decks
6 Eriette of the Charmed Apple 14 decks
7 Darien, King of Kjeldor 13 decks
8 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 13 decks
9 Myrel, Shield of Argive 12 decks
10 Avacyn, Angel of Hope 11 decks

Card text

Rebuff the Wicked

Instant

Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.

Time Spiral Remastered (TSR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Stephen Tappin

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.