Live Play Data

Spellskite

· Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Horror · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

835

Decks Running

395

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=152

16%

10%

14%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 21% (25 / 152 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

The "good card" funnel

835 brought · 355 players

Brought to game

835

Ever drawn

217

Reached battlefield

152

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 44% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +2.8pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=140) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=523).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 41% (n=61).

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 +10.7pp; 95% confidence interval +2.8pp to +18.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

237 instances

4.2%

Library

28.3%

Battlefield

35.4%

Graveyard

9.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Captain N'ghathrod 69 decks
2 Umbris, Fear Manifest 32 decks
3 Urza, Lord High Artificer 24 decks
4 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 15 decks
5 Animar, Soul of Elements 14 decks
6 Vivi Ornitier 11 decks
7 Urza, Chief Artificer 9 decks
8 Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor 8 decks
9 Golbez, Crystal Collector 7 decks
10 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 6 decks

Card text

Spellskite

Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Horror

: Change a target of target spell or ability to this creature. ( {U/P}

can be paid with either {U}

or 2 life.)

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Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Rare · Illustrated by Chippy

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.