Live Play Data

Counterspell

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

39%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

29482

Decks Running

12373

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=4014

11%

62%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 22

On curve 1% (22 / 4014 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

The "good card" funnel

29503 brought · 5828 players

Brought to game

29503

Ever drawn

7406

Reached battlefield

4014

Still on board at game end

290

≥ +7.5pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=3884) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=19378).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=3203).

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 +9.0pp; 95% confidence interval +7.5pp to +10.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

8368 instances

3.7%

Library

3.5%

Battlefield

49.3%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 169 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 167 decks
3 Sai, Master Thopterist 152 decks
4 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 142 decks
5 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 138 decks
6 Sauron, the Dark Lord 132 decks
7 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 115 decks
8 Jodah, the Unifier 115 decks
9 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 107 decks
10 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 105 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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.