Live Play Data

Skittering Cicada

· Creature — Insect · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

730

Decks Running

326

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=123

11%

12%

15%

41%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 17% (14 / 123 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

730 brought · 298 players

Brought to game

730

Ever drawn

173

Reached battlefield

123

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ -4.1pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=109) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=465).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=40).

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 +5.0pp; 95% confidence interval -4.1pp to +14.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

189 instances

2.1%

Library

37.0%

Battlefield

30.7%

Graveyard

9.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 134 decks
2 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 41 decks
3 Omnath, Locus of the Void 33 decks
4 Molecule Man 16 decks
5 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 15 decks
6 Kozilek, the Great Distortion 9 decks
7 Karn, Legacy Reforged 5 decks
8 The Cabbage Merchant 5 decks
9 The Walls of Ba Sing Se 5 decks
10 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 5 decks

Card text

Skittering Cicada

Creature — Insect

Flash You may cast colorless spells as though they had flash. Whenever you cast a colorless spell, until end of turn, this creature gains trample and gets +X/+X, where X is that spell's mana value.

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Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Denis Zhbankov

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.