Live Play Data

Snakeskin Veil

· Instant · Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1909

Decks Running

888

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

43%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=179

11%

61%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 1% (1 / 179 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

1909 brought · 751 players

Brought to game

1909

Ever drawn

417

Reached battlefield

179

Still on board at game end

≥ +4.3pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=167) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1262).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=223).

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 +11.3pp; 95% confidence interval +4.3pp to +18.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

473 instances

4.7%

Library

3.4%

Battlefield

44.0%

Graveyard

3.8%

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.