Live Play Data

Spellskite

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1573

Decks Running

712

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=305

16%

12%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 21

On curve 21% (50 / 305 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 46%

The "good card" funnel

1573 brought · 623 players

Brought to game

1573

Ever drawn

414

Reached battlefield

305

Still on board at game end

135

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.

≥ +1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=277) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=972).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=103).

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 +7.2pp; 95% confidence interval +1.6pp to +12.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

453 instances

5.3%

Library

29.8%

Battlefield

34.7%

Graveyard

9.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Captain N'ghathrod 108 decks
2 Umbris, Fear Manifest 50 decks
3 Urza, Lord High Artificer 45 decks
4 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 28 decks
5 Animar, Soul of Elements 24 decks
6 Vivi Ornitier 22 decks
7 Golbez, Crystal Collector 14 decks
8 Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor 14 decks
9 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 13 decks
10 Urza, Chief Artificer 12 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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.