Live Play Data

Splinter's Technique

· Sorcery · Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMT)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

684

Decks Running

252

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=79

16%

18%

53%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 22% (13 / 79 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

685 brought · 226 players

Brought to game

685

Ever drawn

142

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.3pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=71) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=463).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=53).

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 +4.1pp; 95% confidence interval -6.3pp to +14.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

161 instances

2.5%

Library

1.2%

Battlefield

55.9%

Graveyard

9.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Splinter's Technique

Sorcery

Sneak

(You may cast this spell for {1}

if you also return an unblocked attacker you control to hand during the declare blockers step.) Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMT) · Rare · Illustrated by Jo Cordisco

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.