Live Play Data

Cabal Ritual

· Instant · Vintage Masters (VMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3036

Decks Running

1363

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=405

13%

11%

19%

43%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 7% (25 / 405 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

3043 brought · 1012 players

Brought to game

3043

Ever drawn

697

Reached battlefield

405

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=366) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1820).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=260).

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 +6.8pp; 95% confidence interval +2.0pp to +11.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

853 instances

3.6%

Library

3.4%

Battlefield

53.5%

Graveyard

13.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 51 decks
2 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 49 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 46 decks
4 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 38 decks
5 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 35 decks
6 Fire Lord Azula 31 decks
7 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 27 decks
8 Smaug the Impenetrable 26 decks
9 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 24 decks
10 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 23 decks

Card text

Cabal Ritual

Instant

Add

. Threshold — Add {B}

instead if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

Vintage Masters (VMA) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Greg Hildebrandt

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.