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Cabal Ritual

· Instant · Vintage Masters (VMA)

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Times Brought

554

Decks Running

277

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Final zone distribution

116 instances

6.0%

Library

5.2%

Battlefield

41.4%

Graveyard

19.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 16 decks
2 Edgar Markov 10 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 8 decks
4 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 8 decks
5 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 8 decks
6 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 7 decks
7 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 6 decks
8 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 6 decks
9 Sauron, the Dark Lord 6 decks
10 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

554 brought · 249 players

Brought to game

554

Ever drawn

100

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.6pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=43) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=328).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=34) — 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 +2.4pp; 95% confidence interval -5.6pp to +10.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=53

21%

17%

30%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 28% (11 / 53 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

53 of 100 times cast 53%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.