Live Play Data

Swallowed by Leviathan

· Instant · Final Fantasy (FIN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

196

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

53%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=31

19%

52%

T6-9

26%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 14

On curve 0% (0 / 31 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

196 brought · 67 players

Brought to game

196

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +12.3pp

Players who cast this card win 48% of the time (n=31) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=114).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=22).

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 +29.4pp; 95% confidence interval +12.3pp to +46.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

65 instances

4.6%

Library

4.6%

Battlefield

52.3%

Graveyard

4.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 9 decks
2 Golbez, Crystal Collector 5 decks
3 Mirko, Obsessive Theorist 5 decks
4 Vivi Ornitier 5 decks
5 Sephiroth, Planet's Heir 4 decks
6 Sin, Spira's Punishment 4 decks
7 Denzilore Fatehold 3 decks
8 Glarb, Calamity's Augur 2 decks
9 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 2 decks
10 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep 2 decks

Card text

Swallowed by Leviathan

Instant

Choose target spell. Surveil 2, then counter the chosen spell unless its controller pays {1}

for each card in your graveyard. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Final Fantasy (FIN) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Sansyu

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.