Live Play Data

Stroke of Midnight

· Instant · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1555

Decks Running

785

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=226

15%

62%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 4% (9 / 226 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

1557 brought · 638 players

Brought to game

1557

Ever drawn

349

Reached battlefield

226

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=209) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1034).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=111).

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 +3.9pp; 95% confidence interval -2.4pp to +10.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

387 instances

2.8%

Library

1.8%

Battlefield

60.5%

Graveyard

9.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 37 decks
2 Giada, Font of Hope 23 decks
3 Lightning, Army of One 23 decks
4 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 19 decks
5 Queen Marchesa 17 decks
6 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 14 decks
7 Zurgo Stormrender 14 decks
8 Gluntch, the Bestower 13 decks
9 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 12 decks
10 Ms. Bumbleflower 11 decks

Card text

Stroke of Midnight

Instant

Destroy target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a 1/1 white Human creature token.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Julia Metzger

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.