Live Play Data

Counterspell

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

38%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

16508

Decks Running

7589

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=2249

12%

60%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 20

On curve 1% (25 / 2249 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

The "good card" funnel

16527 brought · 3870 players

Brought to game

16527

Ever drawn

4096

Reached battlefield

2249

Still on board at game end

155

≥ +6.0pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=2074) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=10277).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=1675).

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 +8.0pp; 95% confidence interval +6.0pp to +10.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

4632 instances

3.5%

Library

3.3%

Battlefield

50.5%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 119 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 102 decks
3 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 92 decks
4 Sauron, the Dark Lord 88 decks
5 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 77 decks
6 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 70 decks
7 Jodah, the Unifier 68 decks
8 Ms. Bumbleflower 66 decks
9 The Ur-Dragon 66 decks
10 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 64 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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.