Live Play Data

Silence

· Instant · Magic 2014 (M14)

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Times Brought

3238

Decks Running

1318

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=507

16%

53%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 47

On curve 1% (3 / 507 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

3240 brought · 945 players

Brought to game

3240

Ever drawn

785

Reached battlefield

507

Still on board at game end

≥ +4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=463) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=1992).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=245).

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 +9.3pp; 95% confidence interval +4.7pp to +13.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

894 instances

4.4%

Library

5.6%

Battlefield

53.4%

Graveyard

10.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kaalia of the Vast 37 decks
2 Winota, Joiner of Forces 36 decks
3 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 34 decks
4 Whtz, the Bibliophile 33 decks
5 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 32 decks
6 Tymna the Weaver 30 decks
7 Ms. Bumbleflower 28 decks
8 Giada, Font of Hope 27 decks
9 Sisay, Weatherlight Captain 25 decks
10 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 18 decks

Card text

Silence

Instant

Your opponents can't cast spells this turn.

Magic 2014 (M14) · Rare · Illustrated by Wayne Reynolds

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.