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Withering Boon

· Instant · Mirage (MIR)

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Times Brought

153

Decks Running

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

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

Final zone distribution

40 instances

2.5%

Library

2.5%

Battlefield

42.5%

Graveyard

22.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 6 decks
2 Mr. House, President and CEO 5 decks
3 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 4 decks
4 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 4 decks
5 Phage the Untouchable 4 decks
6 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled 3 decks
7 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 3 decks
8 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 3 decks
9 Gisa, the Hellraiser 2 decks
10 Maralen of the Mornsong 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

153 brought · 69 players

Brought to game

153

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.8pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=16) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=88).

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 +13.9pp; 95% confidence interval +0.8pp to +27.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

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.