Live Play Data

Sinister Sabotage

· Instant · Ravnica Remastered (RVR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

326

Decks Running

146

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

45%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=35

63%

T6-9

31%

T10+

Median 8 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 13

On curve 0% (0 / 35 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

326 brought · 136 players

Brought to game

326

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +5.5pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=35) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=195).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=38).

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 +22.1pp; 95% confidence interval +5.5pp to +38.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

91 instances

3.3%

Library

4.4%

Battlefield

41.8%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gisa and Geralf 43 decks
2 Denzilore Fatehold 12 decks
3 Mirko, Obsessive Theorist 11 decks
4 Baral, Chief of Compliance 8 decks
5 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 7 decks
6 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 5 decks
7 The Scarab God 4 decks
8 Ultimecia, Time Sorceress // Ultimecia, Omnipotent 4 decks
9 Matoya, Archon Elder 2 decks
10 Nashi, Searcher in the Dark 2 decks

Card text

Sinister Sabotage

Instant

Counter target spell. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Ravnica Remastered (RVR) · Common · Illustrated by Mathias Kollros

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.