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Spell Pierce

· Instant · Aetherdrift (DFT)

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Times Brought

749

Decks Running

346

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

Spell Pierce

Instant

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}

Aetherdrift (DFT) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Maxime Minard

Final zone distribution

192 instances

1.0%

Library

4.2%

Battlefield

37.5%

Graveyard

12.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 16 decks
2 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 14 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 13 decks
4 Fire Lord Azula 11 decks
5 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 8 decks
6 Urza, Lord High Artificer 8 decks
7 Thranduil, the Elvenking 7 decks
8 Baral, Chief of Compliance 6 decks
9 Talrand, Sky Summoner 6 decks
10 Zur the Enchanter 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

751 brought · 325 players

Brought to game

751

Ever drawn

164

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.1pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=56) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=418).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=72).

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 +3.9pp; 95% confidence interval -3.1pp to +10.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=70

11%

10%

20%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 3% (2 / 70 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 16%

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.