Live Play Data

Silkguard

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

627

Decks Running

302

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

49%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=69

61%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

627 brought · 274 players

Brought to game

627

Ever drawn

141

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=62) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=400).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=64).

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 +9.2pp; 95% confidence interval -2.0pp to +20.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

155 instances

3.2%

Library

3.2%

Battlefield

45.2%

Graveyard

5.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 120 decks
2 Chishiro, the Shattered Blade 15 decks
3 Magus Lucea Kane 10 decks
4 Shroofus Sproutsire 8 decks
5 Kibo, Uktabi Prince 7 decks
6 Cosmic Spider-Man 6 decks
7 Zaxara, the Exemplary 6 decks
8 Miles Morales // Ultimate Spider-Man 5 decks
9 Primo, the Unbounded 5 decks
10 Thrun, Breaker of Silence 5 decks

Card text

Silkguard

Instant

Put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to X target creatures you control. Auras, Equipment, and modified creatures you control gain hexproof until end of turn. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Dan Murayama Scott

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.