Live Play Data

Angel of Suffering

· Creature — Nightmare Angel · Streets of New Capenna (SNC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

285

Decks Running

111

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=44

11%

59%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 25% (5 / 44 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

285 brought · 113 players

Brought to game

285

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 41% 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.

≥ -2.6pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=42) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=153).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=27).

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 +12.9pp; 95% confidence interval -2.6pp to +28.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

103 instances

3.9%

Library

17.5%

Battlefield

38.8%

Graveyard

20.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Shilgengar, Sire of Famine 18 decks
2 Baron Helmut Zemo 8 decks
3 Syr Konrad, the Grim 8 decks
4 Seluma, Light of Aysen 6 decks
5 The Wise Mothman 6 decks
6 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled 3 decks
7 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 3 decks
8 Kaalia of the Vast 3 decks
9 Muldrotha, the Gravetide 3 decks
10 The Ancient One 3 decks

Card text

Angel of Suffering

Creature — Nightmare Angel

Flying If damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage and mill twice that many cards.

5 / 3

Streets of New Capenna (SNC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Martina Fačková

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.