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Live Play Data

Spell Swindle

{3} {U} {U} · Instant · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
229
Decks Running
115
Median Cast Turn
8.0
Drawn → Played
56%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=34
0%
T1
0%
T2
0%
T3
6%
T4
15%
T5
53%
T6-9
26%
T10+
Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 18
On curve 21% (5 / 34 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

229 brought · 116 players
Brought to game
229
Ever drawn
61
Reached battlefield
34
Still on board at game end
1
≥ +5.4pp

Players who cast this card win 45% of the time (n=33) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=148).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=24).

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 +21.4pp; 95% confidence interval +5.4pp to +37.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

66 instances
3.0%
Library
1.5%
Battlefield
56.1%
Graveyard
12.1%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Spell Swindle card

Spell Swindle

{3} {U} {U}
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

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.