Live Play Data

Windswift Slice

· Instant · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

419

Decks Running

193

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=59

14%

64%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 3% (2 / 59 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

419 brought · 186 players

Brought to game

419

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -7.2pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=52) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=262).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=34).

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 +5.2pp; 95% confidence interval -7.2pp to +17.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

104 instances

4.8%

Library

4.8%

Battlefield

61.5%

Graveyard

2.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Windswift Slice

Instant

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control. Create a number of 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature tokens equal to the amount of excess damage dealt this way.

Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Narendra Bintara Adi

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.