Live Play Data

Smothering Tithe

· Enchantment · Commander Masters (CMM)

19%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

6358

Decks Running

2834

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1055

15%

21%

15%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 21

On curve 44% (221 / 1055 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

6359 brought · 1706 players

Brought to game

6359

Ever drawn

1499

Reached battlefield

1055

Still on board at game end

700

Once cast, 66% 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.

≥ +4.1pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=971) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=4088).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=407).

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 +7.0pp; 95% confidence interval +4.1pp to +10.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1666 instances

2.6%

Library

42.0%

Battlefield

23.6%

Graveyard

8.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 98 decks
2 The Ur-Dragon 79 decks
3 Ms. Bumbleflower 74 decks
4 Giada, Font of Hope 72 decks
5 Kaalia of the Vast 53 decks
6 Mr. House, President and CEO 45 decks
7 Marneus Calgar 44 decks
8 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 39 decks
9 Edgar Markov 35 decks
10 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 34 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.