Live Play Data

Snakeskin Veil

· Instant · Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1317

Decks Running

636

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

41%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=122

11%

62%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 1% (1 / 122 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

1317 brought · 540 players

Brought to game

1317

Ever drawn

299

Reached battlefield

122

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=115) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=862).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=167).

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 +9.4pp; 95% confidence interval +1.2pp to +17.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

333 instances

4.2%

Library

2.7%

Battlefield

42.9%

Graveyard

3.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Snakeskin Veil

Instant

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains hexproof until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM) · Common · Illustrated by Monztre

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.