Live Play Data
Cabal Ritual
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Instant
·
Vintage Masters (VMA)
5%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
1496
Decks Running
738
Median Cast Turn
5
Drawn → Played
58%
Format
First-cast turn
n=197
2%
T1
9%
T2
11%
T3
14%
T4
17%
T5
40%
T6-9
7%
T10+
Median
5
P25
4
· P75
7
· max
13
On curve
11%
(18 / 197 cast on T2)
Cast same turn as drawn
43%
The "good card" funnel
1503 brought · 576 playersBrought to game
1503
Ever drawn
342
Reached battlefield
197
Still on board at game end
14
≥ -0.6pp
Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=181) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=877).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=127).
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 -0.6pp to +13.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
415 instances4.1%
Library
3.4%
Battlefield
51.6%
Graveyard
14.0%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
31 decks
-
2
Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin
28 decks
-
3
Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
22 decks
-
4
Smaug the Impenetrable
21 decks
-
5
Fire Lord Azula
20 decks
-
6
Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
19 decks
-
7
Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh
15 decks
-
8
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
15 decks
-
9
Edgar Markov
14 decks
-
10
Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
14 decks
Card text
Cabal Ritual
Instant
Add .
Threshold — Add instead if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
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Threshold — Add instead if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
Vintage Masters (VMA)
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Uncommon
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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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.