Live Play Data

Tibalt's Trickery

· Instant · Kaldheim (KHM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1417

Decks Running

719

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=155

17%

54%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 22

On curve 3% (1 / 155 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

1417 brought · 569 players

Brought to game

1417

Ever drawn

279

Reached battlefield

155

Still on board at game end

≥ -7.3pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=135) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=927).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=113).

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 +0.3pp; 95% confidence interval -7.3pp to +8.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

329 instances

4.3%

Library

4.3%

Battlefield

51.4%

Graveyard

11.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 30 decks
2 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 27 decks
3 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 20 decks
4 Queen Marchesa 19 decks
5 Kratos, God of War 18 decks
6 Sauron, the Dark Lord 17 decks
7 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 15 decks
8 Deadpool, Trading Card 14 decks
9 Prosper, Tome-Bound 14 decks
10 Norin the Wary 12 decks

Card text

Tibalt's Trickery

Instant

Counter target spell. Choose 1, 2, or 3 at random. Its controller mills that many cards, then exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card with a different name than that spell. They may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then they put the exiled cards on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Kaldheim (KHM) · Rare · Illustrated by Anna Podedworna

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.