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Veil of Summer

· Instant · Core Set 2020 (M20)

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Times Brought

1236

Decks Running

624

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

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

Final zone distribution

241 instances

3.7%

Library

3.7%

Battlefield

33.2%

Graveyard

11.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 28 decks
2 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 21 decks
3 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 21 decks
4 Thranduil, the Elvenking 16 decks
5 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 15 decks
6 Thrasios, Triton Hero 15 decks
7 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 14 decks
8 Witherbloom, the Balancer 12 decks
9 Fynn, the Fangbearer 11 decks
10 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 11 decks

The "good card" funnel

1238 brought · 495 players

Brought to game

1238

Ever drawn

215

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -9.0pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=71) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=669).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=95).

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 -2.9pp; 95% confidence interval -9.0pp to +3.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=89

10%

18%

42%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 2% (2 / 89 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

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 seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.