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Skittering Cicada

· Creature — Insect · Commander Masters (CMM)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

228

Decks Running

119

In Decks

769

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

61 instances

3.3%

Library

36.1%

Battlefield

39.3%

Graveyard

3.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

228 brought · 108 players

Brought to game

228

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -12.8pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=39) , vs 32% when it never left the library (n=146).

Observed gap +2.1pp; 95% confidence interval -12.8pp to +16.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=44

11%

16%

11%

36%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 20% (5 / 44 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

44 of 100 times cast 44%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.