Live Play Data

Snakeskin Veil

· Instant · Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2629

Decks Running

1168

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

43%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=248

12%

60%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 0% (1 / 248 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

2629 brought · 987 players

Brought to game

2629

Ever drawn

577

Reached battlefield

248

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.0pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=234) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1726).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=303).

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 +5.8pp; 95% confidence interval +0.0pp to +11.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

656 instances

4.1%

Library

3.4%

Battlefield

45.0%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tifa Lockhart 44 decks
2 Shroofus Sproutsire 40 decks
3 Wolverine, Best There Is 34 decks
4 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 32 decks
5 Xyris, the Writhing Storm 27 decks
6 The Astonishing Ant-Man 25 decks
7 Fynn, the Fangbearer 23 decks
8 Beorn the Fierce 21 decks
9 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave 21 decks
10 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower 17 decks

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.