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Spatial Contortion

· Instant · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

273

Decks Running

120

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

Spatial Contortion

Instant

(

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

Commander Masters (CMM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Daarken

Final zone distribution

54 instances

1.9%

Library

5.6%

Battlefield

40.7%

Graveyard

3.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 46 decks
2 Molecule Man 10 decks
3 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 7 decks
4 Kozilek, the Great Distortion 6 decks
5 Omnath, Locus of the Void 5 decks
6 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought 4 decks
7 Karn, Legacy Reforged 4 decks
8 Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender 4 decks
9 The Regalia 3 decks
10 The Walls of Ba Sing Se 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

273 brought · 109 players

Brought to game

273

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +5.0pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=22) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=167).

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 +14.7pp; 95% confidence interval +5.0pp to +24.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=27

15%

26%

33%

22%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 10

On curve 0% (0 / 27 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.