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Tale's End

· Instant · Core Set 2020 (M20)

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Times Brought

145

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Tale's End

Instant

Counter target activated ability, triggered ability, or legendary spell.

Core Set 2020 (M20) · Rare · Illustrated by Randy Vargas

Final zone distribution

43 instances

2.3%

Battlefield

46.5%

Graveyard

9.3%

Exile

41.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Baral, Chief of Compliance 4 decks
2 Spider-Man 2099 4 decks
3 Aragorn, King of Gondor 2 decks
4 Charix, the Raging Isle 2 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 2 decks
6 Lord of the Nazgûl 2 decks
7 Obeka, Brute Chronologist 2 decks
8 Tasigur, the Golden Fang 2 decks
9 Urza, Lord High Artificer 2 decks
10 Zur, Eternal Schemer 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

146 brought · 67 players

Brought to game

146

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.8pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=18) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=61).

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 +8.5pp; 95% confidence interval -3.8pp to +20.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.