Live Play Data

Withering Boon

· Instant · Mirage (MIR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

269

Decks Running

116

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=35

57%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 6% (2 / 35 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

269 brought · 110 players

Brought to game

269

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -15.1pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=32) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=171).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=24).

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 -1.3pp; 95% confidence interval -15.1pp to +12.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

75 instances

2.7%

Library

6.7%

Battlefield

46.7%

Graveyard

8.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Mr. House, President and CEO 8 decks
2 Phage the Untouchable 5 decks
3 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 5 decks
4 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 5 decks
5 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 5 decks
6 Gwenom, Remorseless 4 decks
7 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 4 decks
8 Erebos, God of the Dead 3 decks
9 Ardyn, the Usurper 2 decks
10 Braids, Arisen Nightmare 2 decks

Card text

Withering Boon

Instant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 3 life. Counter target creature spell.

Mirage (MIR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Robert Bliss

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 subset of that corpus.