Live Play Data

Bitter Triumph

· Instant · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1646

Decks Running

794

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=240

10%

22%

49%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 2% (5 / 240 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

1649 brought · 688 players

Brought to game

1649

Ever drawn

361

Reached battlefield

240

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.8pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=224) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1041).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=106).

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 -0.1pp; 95% confidence interval -5.8pp to +5.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

441 instances

2.9%

Library

2.0%

Battlefield

61.9%

Graveyard

10.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zurgo Stormrender 37 decks
2 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 29 decks
3 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 28 decks
4 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 26 decks
5 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 18 decks
6 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 18 decks
7 The Beamtown Bullies 16 decks
8 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 14 decks
9 Blech, Loafing Pest 10 decks
10 Rivaz of the Claw 10 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 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.