Live Play Data

Shadow of Mortality

· Creature — Avatar · Streets of New Capenna (SNC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

136

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

45%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=18

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

136 brought · 74 players

Brought to game

136

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -11.6pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=17) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=82).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 37% (n=19).

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 +9.9pp; 95% confidence interval -11.6pp to +31.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

45 instances

8.9%

Library

17.8%

Battlefield

31.1%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 44 decks
2 The Ancient One 4 decks
3 Vial Smasher the Fierce 4 decks
4 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 3 decks
5 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar 2 decks
6 Athreos, Shroud-Veiled 1 decks
7 Blech, Loafing Pest 1 decks
8 Greven, Predator Captain 1 decks
9 Illuminor Szeras 1 decks
10 Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker 1 decks

Card text

Shadow of Mortality

Creature — Avatar

If your life total is less than your starting life total, this spell costs {X}

less to cast, where X is the difference.

7 / 7

Streets of New Capenna (SNC) · Rare · Illustrated by Robin Olausson

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.