Live Play Data

Skittering Cicada

· Creature — Insect · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

512

Decks Running

226

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=90

10%

12%

13%

44%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 17% (9 / 90 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

The "good card" funnel

512 brought · 201 players

Brought to game

512

Ever drawn

118

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 62% 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.

≥ -2.8pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=83) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=328).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=23).

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 +7.7pp; 95% confidence interval -2.8pp to +18.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

130 instances

1.5%

Library

43.1%

Battlefield

32.3%

Graveyard

6.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 102 decks
2 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 32 decks
3 Molecule Man 12 decks
4 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 12 decks
5 Kozilek, the Great Distortion 6 decks
6 Karn, Legacy Reforged 5 decks
7 The Cabbage Merchant 5 decks
8 Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter 4 decks
9 Omnath, Locus of the Void 4 decks
10 The Walls of Ba Sing Se 4 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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.