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Winding Constrictor

· Creature — Snake · Aether Revolt (AER)

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Times Brought

527

Decks Running

258

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

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.

2 / 3

Aether Revolt (AER) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Izzy

Final zone distribution

132 instances

2.3%

Library

49.2%

Battlefield

26.5%

Graveyard

3.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Wise Mothman 100 decks
2 Blech, Loafing Pest 46 decks
3 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave 17 decks
4 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 11 decks
5 Ghave, Guru of Spores 10 decks
6 Tayam, Luminous Enigma 9 decks
7 Agent Frank Horrigan 7 decks
8 Jenova, Ancient Calamity 5 decks
9 Xavier Sal, Infested Captain 5 decks
10 Slimefoot, the Stowaway 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

527 brought · 242 players

Brought to game

527

Ever drawn

116

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 70% 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.

≥ -6.1pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=66) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=265).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=15).

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 +0.7pp; 95% confidence interval -6.1pp to +7.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=93

15%

14%

18%

15%

25%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 15

On curve 20% (14 / 93 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.