Live Play Data

Cabal Ritual

· Instant · Vintage Masters (VMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2347

Decks Running

1097

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=308

12%

14%

18%

39%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 11% (27 / 308 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

2354 brought · 830 players

Brought to game

2354

Ever drawn

538

Reached battlefield

308

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.7pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=279) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1401).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=205).

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 +6.2pp; 95% confidence interval +0.7pp to +11.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

662 instances

3.8%

Library

3.2%

Battlefield

52.4%

Graveyard

14.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 43 decks
2 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 41 decks
3 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 33 decks
4 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 33 decks
5 Fire Lord Azula 28 decks
6 Smaug the Impenetrable 25 decks
7 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 23 decks
8 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 22 decks
9 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 20 decks
10 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 18 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 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.