Live Play Data

Counterspell

· Instant · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)

38%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

11303

Decks Running

5415

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1568

13%

59%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 20

On curve 1% (17 / 1568 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

The "good card" funnel

11319 brought · 2890 players

Brought to game

11319

Ever drawn

2823

Reached battlefield

1568

Still on board at game end

106

≥ +5.7pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=1464) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=7085).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=1142).

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 +8.1pp; 95% confidence interval +5.7pp to +10.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

3177 instances

3.2%

Library

3.3%

Battlefield

51.0%

Graveyard

7.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 82 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 74 decks
3 Sauron, the Dark Lord 70 decks
4 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 60 decks
5 Fire Lord Azula 57 decks
6 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 54 decks
7 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 52 decks
8 Ms. Bumbleflower 51 decks
9 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 51 decks
10 Jodah, the Unifier 50 decks

Card text

Counterspell

Instant

Counter target spell.

Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Zack Stella

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.