Live Play Data

Winding Constrictor

· Creature — Snake · Aether Revolt (AER)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

515

Decks Running

275

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

79%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=76

13%

11%

20%

37%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 13% (7 / 76 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

515 brought · 268 players

Brought to game

515

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 53% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=67) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=325).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 11% (n=19).

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 +10.1pp; 95% confidence interval -0.9pp to +21.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

133 instances

2.3%

Library

30.1%

Battlefield

48.1%

Graveyard

6.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Wise Mothman 118 decks
2 Blech, Loafing Pest 43 decks
3 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave 18 decks
4 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 8 decks
5 Ghave, Guru of Spores 7 decks
6 The Most Dangerous Gamer 7 decks
7 Felothar, Dawn of the Abzan 6 decks
8 Indominus Rex, Alpha 6 decks
9 Agent Frank Horrigan 5 decks
10 Jenova, Ancient Calamity 4 decks

Card text

Winding Constrictor

Creature — Snake

If one or more counters would be put on an artifact or creature you control, that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters are put on that permanent instead. If you would get one or more counters, you get that many plus one of each of those kinds of counters instead.

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Aether Revolt (AER) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Izzy

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.