Live Play Data

Snuff Out

· Instant · Duel Decks Anthology: Garruk vs. Liliana (GVL)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2854

Decks Running

1349

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=475

10%

16%

53%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 16% (49 / 475 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

2855 brought · 1106 players

Brought to game

2855

Ever drawn

716

Reached battlefield

475

Still on board at game end

≥ +5.3pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=424) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1740).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=193).

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 +10.0pp; 95% confidence interval +5.3pp to +14.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

812 instances

1.8%

Library

3.4%

Battlefield

57.8%

Graveyard

10.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 439 decks
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 63 decks
3 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 56 decks
4 Davros, Dalek Creator 34 decks
5 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 31 decks
6 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 31 decks
7 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 30 decks
8 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival 15 decks
9 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 12 decks
10 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 11 decks

Card text

Snuff Out

Instant

If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Duel Decks Anthology: Garruk vs. Liliana (GVL) · Common · Illustrated by Steve Argyle

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.