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Part of Outlaws of Thunder Junction
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Instant
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Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)
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Baleful Mastery
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Instant
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Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)
Times Brought
163
Decks Running
99
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format
Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.
Card text
Baleful Mastery
Instant
You may pay 
rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the cost was paid, an opponent draws a card.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.
rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the cost was paid, an opponent draws a card.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.
Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Chris Cold
Final zone distribution
40 instances2.5%
Library
5.0%
Battlefield
55.0%
Graveyard
10.0%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
13 decks
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2
Nekusar, the Mindrazer
12 decks
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3
Gonti, Canny Acquisitor
9 decks
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4
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
9 decks
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5
Umbris, Fear Manifest
4 decks
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6
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
3 decks
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7
Chatterfang, Squirrel General
2 decks
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8
Glarb, Calamity's Augur
2 decks
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9
Kotis, the Fangkeeper
2 decks
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10
Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
2 decks
The "good card" funnel
163 brought · 98 playersBrought to game
163
Ever drawn
37
Reached battlefield
23
Still on board at game end
2
≥ -11.0pp
Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=21) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=94).
Observed gap +0.9pp; 95% confidence interval -11.0pp to +12.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=23
0%
T1
4%
T2
4%
T3
22%
T4
13%
T5
48%
T6-9
9%
T10+
Median
6
P25
4
· P75
8
· max
13
On curve
30%
(5 / 23 cast on T4)
Cast same turn as drawn
19%
23 of 100 times cast
23%
Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.
Frequently Asked
Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.