Live Play Data

Spelltwine

· Sorcery · Commander 2017 (C17)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

182

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=29

62%

T6-9

34%

T10+

Median 8 P25 7 · P75 11 · max 15

On curve 17% (4 / 29 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

182 brought · 92 players

Brought to game

182

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.8pp

Players who cast this card win 47% of the time (n=25) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=113).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=18).

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 +22.7pp; 95% confidence interval +2.8pp to +42.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

55 instances

1.8%

Library

3.6%

Battlefield

43.6%

Graveyard

23.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 11 decks
2 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 8 decks
3 Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge 7 decks
4 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 7 decks
5 Codie, Vociferous Codex 3 decks
6 Gandalf, Party Guest 3 decks
7 Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder 3 decks
8 Don Andres, the Renegade 2 decks
9 Gonti, Canny Acquisitor 2 decks
10 Hidetsugu and Kairi 2 decks

Card text

Spelltwine

Sorcery

Exile target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard and target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard. Copy those cards. Cast the copies if able without paying their mana costs. Exile Spelltwine.

Commander 2017 (C17) · Rare · Illustrated by Noah Bradley

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.