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Contest of Claws

· Sorcery · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)

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Times Brought

179

Decks Running

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.

Card text

Contest of Claws

Sorcery

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to another target creature. If excess damage was dealt this way, discover X, where X is that excess damage. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with that mana value or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Cristi Balanescu

Final zone distribution

35 instances

11.4%

Library

2.9%

Battlefield

51.4%

Graveyard

2.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

179 brought · 76 players

Brought to game

179

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -13.9pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=17) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=101).

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 -0.9pp; 95% confidence interval -13.9pp to +12.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=21

19%

24%

33%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 5% (0 / 21 cast on T2)

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.