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Spell Swindle

· Instant · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

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Times Brought

359

Decks Running

138

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 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

83 instances

2.4%

Library

7.2%

Battlefield

41.0%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

359 brought · 133 players

Brought to game

359

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +3.3pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=24) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=228).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=35).

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 +12.7pp; 95% confidence interval +3.3pp to +22.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=33

12%

64%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 15% (4 / 33 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.