Live Play Data

Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass

Sorcery // Land · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1364

Decks Running

634

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=185

12%

10%

16%

19%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 19% (13 / 185 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

The "good card" funnel

1368 brought · 536 players

Brought to game

1368

Ever drawn

310

Reached battlefield

185

Still on board at game end

118

Once cast, 64% 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 36% of the time (n=170) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=875).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=111).

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 +10.1pp; 95% confidence interval +3.0pp to +17.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

357 instances

3.1%

Library

33.1%

Battlefield

29.1%

Graveyard

10.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Shatterskull Smashing

Sorcery

Shatterskull Smashing deals X damage divided as you choose among up to two target creatures and/or planeswalkers. If X is 6 or more, Shatterskull Smashing deals twice X damage divided as you choose among them instead.

Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass

Land

As this land enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped. {T}

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Zendikar Rising (ZNR) · Mythic · Illustrated by Adam Paquette

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.