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Bitter Triumph

· Instant · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

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Times Brought

394

Decks Running

175

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.

Final zone distribution

98 instances

4.1%

Battlefield

61.2%

Graveyard

10.2%

Exile

24.5%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zurgo Stormrender 12 decks
2 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 8 decks
3 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 5 decks
4 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 4 decks
5 Teval, the Balanced Scale 4 decks
6 Blech, Loafing Pest 3 decks
7 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin 3 decks
8 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 3 decks
9 Deadpool, Trading Card 3 decks
10 Edgar Markov 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

394 brought · 164 players

Brought to game

394

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=49) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=243).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=21) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +6.9pp; 95% confidence interval -0.3pp to +14.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=59

12%

15%

17%

39%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 3% (0 / 59 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

59 of 100 times cast 59%

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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.