Live Play Data

Slip Out the Back

· Instant · Ravnica: Clue Edition (CLU)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1882

Decks Running

798

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=262

16%

56%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 1% (2 / 262 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

1886 brought · 694 players

Brought to game

1886

Ever drawn

471

Reached battlefield

262

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.9pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=241) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1204).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=186).

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 +9.0pp; 95% confidence interval +2.9pp to +15.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

536 instances

2.2%

Library

3.9%

Battlefield

53.0%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 58 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 37 decks
3 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 33 decks
4 The Mindskinner 30 decks
5 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One 21 decks
6 Animar, Soul of Elements 18 decks
7 Obeka, Splitter of Seconds 17 decks
8 Me, the Immortal 14 decks
9 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 14 decks
10 Eshki, Temur's Roar 12 decks

Card text

Slip Out the Back

Instant

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)

Ravnica: Clue Edition (CLU) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Zara Alfonso

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.