Live Play Data

Silkguard

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1167

Decks Running

501

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

47%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=124

17%

56%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 20%

The "good card" funnel

1167 brought · 450 players

Brought to game

1167

Ever drawn

263

Reached battlefield

124

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=111) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=763).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=123).

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 +10.2pp; 95% confidence interval +1.6pp to +18.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

293 instances

3.8%

Library

4.1%

Battlefield

44.4%

Graveyard

6.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zimone, Infinite Analyst 169 decks
2 Chishiro, the Shattered Blade 29 decks
3 Shroofus Sproutsire 18 decks
4 Cosmic Spider-Man 16 decks
5 Kibo, Uktabi Prince 12 decks
6 Magus Lucea Kane 11 decks
7 Primo, the Unbounded 11 decks
8 Zaxara, the Exemplary 10 decks
9 Miles Morales // Ultimate Spider-Man 9 decks
10 Wolverine, Best There Is 9 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 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.