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Spell Swindle

· Instant · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

142

Decks Running

In Decks

566

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Spell Swindle

Instant

Counter target spell. Create X Treasure tokens, where X is that spell's mana value. (They're artifacts with " {T}

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

March of the Machine Commander (MOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Victor Adame Minguez

Final zone distribution

39 instances

2.6%

Library

2.6%

Battlefield

48.7%

Graveyard

15.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 9 decks
2 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 4 decks
3 Admiral Beckett Brass 3 decks
4 Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer 3 decks
5 Edward Kenway 3 decks
6 Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy 3 decks
7 Magnus the Red 3 decks
8 Melek, Reforged Researcher 3 decks
9 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable 2 decks
10 Adrix and Nev, Twincasters 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

142 brought · 71 players

Brought to game

142

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +15.3pp

Players who cast this card win 60% of the time (n=18) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=93).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=17) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +35.2pp; 95% confidence interval +15.3pp to +55.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

18 of 100 times cast 18%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.