Live Play Data

Tangle

· Instant · Vintage Masters (VMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

275

Decks Running

125

Median Cast Turn

7.5

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=42

19%

67%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 7.5 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 0% (0 / 42 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

275 brought · 116 players

Brought to game

275

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -23.9pp

Players who cast this card win 15% of the time (n=39) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=169).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 50% (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 -11.7pp; 95% confidence interval -23.9pp to +0.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

77 instances

3.9%

Library

7.8%

Battlefield

57.1%

Graveyard

10.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Cosmic Spider-Man 20 decks
2 Miles Morales // Ultimate Spider-Man 6 decks
3 Wolverine, Best There Is 5 decks
4 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 3 decks
5 Carth the Lion 3 decks
6 Ghalta, Primal Hunger 3 decks
7 Ms. Bumbleflower 3 decks
8 Questing Beast 3 decks
9 Beorn the Fierce 2 decks
10 Blor the Impervious 2 decks

Card text

Tangle

Instant

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. Each attacking creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.

Vintage Masters (VMA) · Common · Illustrated by John Avon

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.