Live Play Data

Smile at Death

· Enchantment · Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

270

Decks Running

117

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

50%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=27

11%

19%

59%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 30% (5 / 27 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 16%

The "good card" funnel

270 brought · 110 players

Brought to game

270

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 78% 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.

≥ -16.9pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=25) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=185).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 42% (n=26).

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 +0.7pp; 95% confidence interval -16.9pp to +18.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

60 instances

35.0%

Battlefield

15.0%

Graveyard

11.7%

Exile

38.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Smile at Death

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, return up to two target creature cards with power 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a +1/+1 counter on each of those creatures.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Olivier Bernard

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.