Live Play Data

Counterspell

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

39%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

22532

Decks Running

9857

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=3068

13%

60%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 20

On curve 2% (36 / 3068 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

The "good card" funnel

22553 brought · 4781 players

Brought to game

22553

Ever drawn

5636

Reached battlefield

3068

Still on board at game end

212

≥ +6.6pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=2825) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=14013).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=2304).

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 +8.3pp; 95% confidence interval +6.6pp to +10.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

6384 instances

3.6%

Library

3.3%

Battlefield

49.5%

Graveyard

8.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 140 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 133 decks
3 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 117 decks
4 Sauron, the Dark Lord 111 decks
5 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 110 decks
6 Jodah, the Unifier 95 decks
7 Sai, Master Thopterist 95 decks
8 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 89 decks
9 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 89 decks
10 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 83 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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.