Live Play Data

Spell Pierce

· Instant · Aetherdrift (DFT)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

959

Decks Running

485

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

51%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=131

10%

13%

51%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 23

On curve 3% (4 / 131 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

960 brought · 443 players

Brought to game

960

Ever drawn

259

Reached battlefield

131

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=115) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=575).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=118).

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 +7.2pp; 95% confidence interval -1.2pp to +15.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

287 instances

4.5%

Library

5.2%

Battlefield

45.3%

Graveyard

8.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Fire Lord Azula 16 decks
2 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 15 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 15 decks
4 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 15 decks
5 Baral, Chief of Compliance 14 decks
6 Urza, Lord High Artificer 12 decks
7 Thranduil, the Elvenking 11 decks
8 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 9 decks
9 Prismari, the Inspiration 8 decks
10 Niv-Mizzet, Parun 7 decks

Card text

Spell Pierce

Instant

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}

Aetherdrift (DFT) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Maxime Minard

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.