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Cabal Ritual
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Instant
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Vintage Masters (VMA)
Times Brought
1090
Decks Running
534
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format
Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.
Card text
Cabal Ritual
Instant
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Vintage Masters (VMA)
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Uncommon
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Illustrated by Greg Hildebrandt
Final zone distribution
236 instances4.7%
Library
5.1%
Battlefield
45.3%
Graveyard
14.8%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
40 decks
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2
Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh
22 decks
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3
Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
18 decks
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4
Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin
16 decks
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5
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
14 decks
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6
Edgar Markov
12 decks
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7
Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
12 decks
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8
Smaug the Impenetrable
11 decks
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9
Tymna the Weaver
11 decks
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10
Fire Lord Azula
10 decks
The "good card" funnel
1090 brought · 440 playersBrought to game
1090
Ever drawn
204
Reached battlefield
114
Still on board at game end
12
≥ -1.3pp
Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=93) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=602).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=63).
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 +4.1pp; 95% confidence interval -1.3pp to +9.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=114
4%
T1
12%
T2
16%
T3
17%
T4
10%
T5
34%
T6-9
7%
T10+
Median
5.0
P25
3
· P75
7
· max
15
On curve
17%
(14 / 114 cast on T2)
Cast same turn as drawn
35%
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.