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Tibalt's Trickery

· Instant · Kaldheim (KHM)

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Times Brought

1522

Decks Running

769

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

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

Final zone distribution

305 instances

2.3%

Library

5.2%

Battlefield

47.5%

Graveyard

9.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 40 decks
2 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 23 decks
3 Norin the Wary 21 decks
4 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 21 decks
5 Kratos, God of War 20 decks
6 Queen Marchesa 20 decks
7 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 19 decks
8 Sauron, the Dark Lord 19 decks
9 Deadpool, Trading Card 17 decks
10 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 17 decks

The "good card" funnel

1523 brought · 627 players

Brought to game

1523

Ever drawn

272

Reached battlefield

139

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.4pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=108) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=880).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=94).

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 -3.4pp; 95% confidence interval -8.4pp to +1.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=139

14%

16%

50%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 5% (5 / 139 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 16%

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.