Live Play Data

Smothering Tithe

· Enchantment · Commander Masters (CMM)

20%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

9513

Decks Running

4029

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1642

14%

21%

16%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 49

On curve 43% (342 / 1642 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

9514 brought · 2281 players

Brought to game

9514

Ever drawn

2314

Reached battlefield

1642

Still on board at game end

1097

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.

≥ +5.6pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=1497) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=6017).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=609).

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 +8.1pp; 95% confidence interval +5.6pp to +10.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

2547 instances

3.0%

Library

43.1%

Battlefield

23.2%

Graveyard

7.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 137 decks
2 Giada, Font of Hope 104 decks
3 The Ur-Dragon 100 decks
4 Ms. Bumbleflower 97 decks
5 Mr. House, President and CEO 69 decks
6 Kaalia of the Vast 67 decks
7 Marneus Calgar 60 decks
8 Edgar Markov 52 decks
9 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 48 decks
10 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 48 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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.