Live Play Data

Combustible Gearhulk

· Artifact Creature — Construct · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1266

Decks Running

580

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=185

11%

62%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 19

On curve 40% (31 / 185 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

The "good card" funnel

1268 brought · 525 players

Brought to game

1268

Ever drawn

305

Reached battlefield

185

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +4.8pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=179) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=789).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=112).

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 +11.6pp; 95% confidence interval +4.8pp to +18.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

347 instances

3.7%

Library

25.6%

Battlefield

35.2%

Graveyard

7.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 81 decks
2 Terra, Herald of Hope 61 decks
3 Dr. Eggman 58 decks
4 Kardur, Doomscourge 27 decks
5 Saheeli, Radiant Creator 26 decks
6 Tannuk, Steadfast Second 20 decks
7 Satya, Aetherflux Genius 16 decks
8 Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force 11 decks
9 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 11 decks
10 Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood 10 decks

Card text

Combustible Gearhulk

Artifact Creature — Construct

First strike When this creature enters, target opponent may have you draw three cards. If the player doesn't, you mill three cards, then this creature deals damage to that player equal to the total mana value of those cards.

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Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Daarken

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.