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

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Times Brought

612

Decks Running

362

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

145 instances

2.1%

Library

7.6%

Battlefield

51.0%

Graveyard

11.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 133 decks
2 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 24 decks
3 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 13 decks
4 Davros, Dalek Creator 12 decks
5 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 8 decks
6 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 7 decks
7 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 7 decks
8 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 6 decks
9 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled 5 decks
10 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

614 brought · 321 players

Brought to game

614

Ever drawn

129

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -7.7pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=69) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=342).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=39).

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 -1.3pp; 95% confidence interval -7.7pp to +5.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=83

18%

42%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 17

On curve 19% (7 / 83 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

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.