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Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass

Sorcery // Land · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

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Times Brought

898

Decks Running

406

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

Final zone distribution

179 instances

2.8%

Library

36.9%

Battlefield

27.4%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Winota, Joiner of Forces 24 decks
2 Krenko, Mob Boss 23 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 19 decks
4 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 16 decks
5 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 11 decks
6 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy 11 decks
7 Deadpool, Trading Card 10 decks
8 Norin the Wary 9 decks
9 Knuckles the Echidna 8 decks
10 Jaws, Relentless Predator 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

898 brought · 359 players

Brought to game

898

Ever drawn

165

Reached battlefield

102

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 65% 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.

≥ -1.5pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=85) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=518).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=44).

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 +4.2pp; 95% confidence interval -1.5pp to +9.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=102

21%

12%

15%

20%

24%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 11

On curve 32% (12 / 102 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 47%

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.