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Snuff Out

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

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Times Brought

1346

Decks Running

730

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

304 instances

2.0%

Library

4.9%

Battlefield

53.6%

Graveyard

12.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 249 decks
2 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 46 decks
3 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 29 decks
4 Davros, Dalek Creator 21 decks
5 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 20 decks
6 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 17 decks
7 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 12 decks
8 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 9 decks
9 Deadpool, Trading Card 8 decks
10 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

1348 brought · 618 players

Brought to game

1348

Ever drawn

275

Reached battlefield

184

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.6pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=142) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=719).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=69).

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 -1.1pp; 95% confidence interval -5.6pp to +3.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=184

14%

16%

47%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 23

On curve 21% (25 / 184 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

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.