Live Play Data

The Chain Veil

· Legendary Artifact · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

987

Decks Running

428

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

51%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=140

59%

T6-9

24%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 9% (9 / 140 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

987 brought · 369 players

Brought to game

987

Ever drawn

277

Reached battlefield

140

Still on board at game end

109

Once cast, 78% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=130) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=618).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=119).

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 +13.2pp; 95% confidence interval +4.7pp to +21.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

305 instances

3.6%

Library

35.7%

Battlefield

22.0%

Graveyard

5.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tam, the Possibility 88 decks
2 Commodore Guff 56 decks
3 Jace, Multiverse Architect 44 decks
4 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 36 decks
5 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 26 decks
6 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 19 decks
7 Carth the Lion 11 decks
8 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer 11 decks
9 Arzakon 8 decks
10 Estrid, the Masked 8 decks

Card text

The Chain Veil

Legendary Artifact

At the beginning of your end step, if you didn't activate a loyalty ability of a planeswalker this turn, you lose 2 life. {4}

: For each planeswalker you control, you may activate one of its loyalty abilities once this turn as though none of its loyalty abilities have been activated this turn.

Commander Masters (CMM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Volkan Baǵa

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.