Live Play Data

Spatial Contortion

· Instant · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

256

Decks Running

108

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=35

14%

43%

T6-9

26%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 10 · max 14

On curve 3% (1 / 35 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

256 brought · 100 players

Brought to game

256

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -21.8pp

Players who cast this card win 14% of the time (n=33) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=164).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 40% (n=22).

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 -10.2pp; 95% confidence interval -21.8pp to +1.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

70 instances

2.9%

Library

4.3%

Battlefield

47.1%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 39 decks
2 Molecule Man 13 decks
3 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 6 decks
4 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 6 decks
5 Karn, Legacy Reforged 5 decks
6 Kozilek, the Great Distortion 5 decks
7 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger 4 decks
8 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought 3 decks
9 The Regalia 3 decks
10 The Walls of Ba Sing Se 3 decks

Card text

Spatial Contortion

Instant

(

represents colorless mana.) Target creature gets +3/-3 until end of turn.

Commander Masters (CMM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Daarken

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.