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Bitter Triumph

· Instant · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

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Times Brought

1162

Decks Running

511

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.

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

Final zone distribution

284 instances

1.8%

Library

3.5%

Battlefield

62.3%

Graveyard

8.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 23 decks
2 Zurgo Stormrender 23 decks
3 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 12 decks
4 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 12 decks
5 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 11 decks
6 Rivaz of the Claw 11 decks
7 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 10 decks
8 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 8 decks
9 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 8 decks
10 Deadpool, Trading Card 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

1162 brought · 456 players

Brought to game

1162

Ever drawn

251

Reached battlefield

166

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=133) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=657).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=65).

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 +4.3pp; 95% confidence interval -0.3pp to +8.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=166

14%

19%

42%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 7% (7 / 166 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

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.