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Cabal Ritual

· Instant · Vintage Masters (VMA)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

768

Decks Running

396

In Decks

2861

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Cabal Ritual

Instant

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

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

Final zone distribution

216 instances

3.7%

Library

3.2%

Battlefield

50.0%

Graveyard

14.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 15 decks
2 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 13 decks
3 Fire Lord Azula 12 decks
4 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 12 decks
5 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 10 decks
6 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 10 decks
7 Smaug the Impenetrable 10 decks
8 Edgar Markov 9 decks
9 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 8 decks
10 Baron Helmut Zemo 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

775 brought · 326 players

Brought to game

775

Ever drawn

174

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.0pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=89) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=463).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=71) — 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 +3.7pp; 95% confidence interval -6.0pp to +13.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=98

10%

11%

18%

43%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 7% (6 / 98 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

98 of 100 times cast 98%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.