Live Play Data

The Chain Veil

· Legendary Artifact · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

366

Decks Running

175

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=55

60%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 16% (5 / 55 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

366 brought · 160 players

Brought to game

366

Ever drawn

100

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 76% 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.

≥ +4.1pp

Players who cast this card win 47% of the time (n=51) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=231).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=40).

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 +17.5pp; 95% confidence interval +4.1pp to +30.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

106 instances

3.8%

Library

39.6%

Battlefield

17.9%

Graveyard

4.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Commodore Guff 32 decks
2 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 18 decks
3 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 11 decks
4 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 10 decks
5 Tam, the Possibility 9 decks
6 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer 8 decks
7 Carth the Lion 7 decks
8 Estrid, the Masked 5 decks
9 Sivitri, Dragon Master 4 decks
10 Feroz, Ulgrotha's Warden 3 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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.