Live Play Data

Stolen Identity

· Sorcery · New Capenna Commander (NCC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

256

Decks Running

132

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

48%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=31

32%

48%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 58% (4 / 31 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 10%

The "good card" funnel

256 brought · 131 players

Brought to game

256

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +4.2pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=30) , vs 14% when it never left the library (n=162).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=32).

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 +20.8pp; 95% confidence interval +4.2pp to +37.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

69 instances

4.3%

Library

20.3%

Battlefield

21.7%

Graveyard

13.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Stolen Identity

Sorcery

Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature. Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

New Capenna Commander (NCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Clint Cearley

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.