Live Play Data

Withering Boon

· Instant · Mirage (MIR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

558

Decks Running

223

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

46%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=51

10%

55%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 2% (1 / 51 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

558 brought · 206 players

Brought to game

558

Ever drawn

112

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -14.5pp

Players who cast this card win 18% of the time (n=48) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=367).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=53).

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 -3.8pp; 95% confidence interval -14.5pp to +7.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

138 instances

3.6%

Library

5.1%

Battlefield

42.0%

Graveyard

10.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Mr. House, President and CEO 11 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 11 decks
3 Phage the Untouchable 10 decks
4 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 10 decks
5 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 7 decks
6 Gwenom, Remorseless 5 decks
7 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 5 decks
8 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 5 decks
9 Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm 4 decks
10 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 4 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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.