Live Play Data

Spell Pierce

· Instant · Aetherdrift (DFT)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1363

Decks Running

649

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

51%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=190

10%

15%

48%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 23

On curve 3% (5 / 190 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

1364 brought · 582 players

Brought to game

1364

Ever drawn

374

Reached battlefield

190

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.7pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=170) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=810).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=164).

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 +7.7pp; 95% confidence interval +0.7pp to +14.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

418 instances

4.3%

Library

4.5%

Battlefield

45.7%

Graveyard

8.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 23 decks
2 Fire Lord Azula 20 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 20 decks
4 Vivi Ornitier 20 decks
5 Baral, Chief of Compliance 17 decks
6 Urza, Lord High Artificer 14 decks
7 Thranduil, the Elvenking 13 decks
8 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 12 decks
9 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 10 decks
10 Prismari, the Inspiration 10 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 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.