Live Play Data

Shadowy Backstreet

Land — Plains Swamp · Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2678

Decks Running

1169

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=685

29%

13%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 20

Cast same turn as drawn 67%

The "good card" funnel

2681 brought · 935 players

Brought to game

2681

Ever drawn

853

Reached battlefield

685

Still on board at game end

640

Once cast, 93% 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.

≥ +3.0pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=633) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1493).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=143).

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 +7.0pp; 95% confidence interval +3.0pp to +11.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

957 instances

1.8%

Library

66.9%

Battlefield

16.9%

Graveyard

3.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Shadowy Backstreet

Land — Plains Swamp

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.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM) · Rare · Illustrated by Andreas Zafiratos

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.