Live Play Data

Smothering Tithe

· Enchantment · Commander Masters (CMM)

20%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

12986

Decks Running

5112

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=2266

15%

21%

16%

34%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 49

On curve 44% (484 / 2266 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

12989 brought · 2740 players

Brought to game

12989

Ever drawn

3204

Reached battlefield

2266

Still on board at game end

1511

Once cast, 67% 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.

≥ +7.0pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=2060) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=8212).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=852).

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 +9.2pp; 95% confidence interval +7.0pp to +11.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

3510 instances

3.0%

Library

43.0%

Battlefield

22.5%

Graveyard

7.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 163 decks
2 Giada, Font of Hope 147 decks
3 The Ur-Dragon 124 decks
4 Ms. Bumbleflower 113 decks
5 Kaalia of the Vast 87 decks
6 Mr. House, President and CEO 85 decks
7 Marneus Calgar 77 decks
8 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 63 decks
9 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 62 decks
10 Edgar Markov 58 decks

Card text

Smothering Tithe

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}

. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with " {T}

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Commander Masters (CMM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Mark Behm

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.