Whisper of the Dross card art
Live Play Data

Whisper of the Dross

{B} · Instant · Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
241
Decks Running
133
Median Cast Turn
7
Drawn → Played
63%
Format

First-cast turn

n=33
0%
T1
3%
T2
3%
T3
12%
T4
9%
T5
61%
T6-9
12%
T10+
Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12
On curve 0% (0 / 33 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

241 brought · 125 players
Brought to game
241
Ever drawn
52
Reached battlefield
33
Still on board at game end
3
≥ -10.7pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=31) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=160).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=18).

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 +5.4pp; 95% confidence interval -10.7pp to +21.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

59 instances
1.7%
Library
5.1%
Battlefield
64.4%
Graveyard
5.1%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Whisper of the Dross card

Whisper of the Dross

{B}
Instant
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) · Common · Illustrated by Eli Minaya

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.
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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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.