Live Play Data

Veil of Summer

· Instant · Core Set 2020 (M20)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3248

Decks Running

1349

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

41%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=290

10%

17%

47%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 20

On curve 1% (4 / 290 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

3248 brought · 1009 players

Brought to game

3248

Ever drawn

701

Reached battlefield

290

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=259) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=2084).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=350).

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 +6.2pp; 95% confidence interval +0.5pp to +12.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

808 instances

4.5%

Library

4.1%

Battlefield

39.0%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 48 decks
2 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 44 decks
3 Witherbloom, the Balancer 39 decks
4 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 37 decks
5 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 37 decks
6 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 24 decks
7 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 22 decks
8 Fynn, the Fangbearer 22 decks
9 Thrasios, Triton Hero 17 decks
10 Crystal, Inhuman Princess 14 decks

Card text

Veil of Summer

Instant

Draw a card if an opponent has cast a blue or black spell this turn. Spells you control can't be countered this turn. You and permanents you control gain hexproof from blue and from black until end of turn. (You and they can't be the targets of blue or black spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Core Set 2020 (M20) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Lake Hurwitz

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.