Live Play Data

Bitter Triumph

· Instant · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

713

Decks Running

348

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=109

11%

22%

52%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 19

On curve 4% (4 / 109 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

716 brought · 310 players

Brought to game

716

Ever drawn

167

Reached battlefield

109

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.0pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=103) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=454).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=54).

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 +2.8pp; 95% confidence interval -6.0pp to +11.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

201 instances

3.0%

Library

1.5%

Battlefield

61.7%

Graveyard

9.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zurgo Stormrender 16 decks
2 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 15 decks
3 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 13 decks
4 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 11 decks
5 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 7 decks
6 Blech, Loafing Pest 6 decks
7 Teval, the Balanced Scale 6 decks
8 The Beamtown Bullies 6 decks
9 Magar of the Magic Strings 5 decks
10 Rivaz of the Claw 5 decks

Card text

Bitter Triumph

Instant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life. Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Donato Giancola

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.