Live Play Data

Snapcaster Mage

· Creature — Human Wizard · Innistrad Remastered (INR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

846

Decks Running

405

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=129

11%

51%

T6-9

23%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 20

On curve 2% (1 / 129 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

846 brought · 352 players

Brought to game

846

Ever drawn

231

Reached battlefield

129

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ -0.4pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=117) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=500).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=87).

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 -0.4pp to +16.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

262 instances

3.8%

Library

23.3%

Battlefield

30.5%

Graveyard

10.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Snapcaster Mage

Creature — Human Wizard

Flash When this creature enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

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Innistrad Remastered (INR) · Mythic · Illustrated by Volkan Baǵa

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.