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Counterspell

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

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Times Brought

4141

Decks Running

2137

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

Counterspell

Instant

Counter target spell.

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

Final zone distribution

949 instances

3.2%

Library

3.8%

Battlefield

44.0%

Graveyard

7.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 33 decks
2 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 28 decks
3 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 28 decks
4 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 27 decks
5 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 27 decks
6 Sauron, the Dark Lord 26 decks
7 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 23 decks
8 Cosmic Spider-Man 22 decks
9 Fire Lord Azula 22 decks
10 Jodah, the Unifier 22 decks

The "good card" funnel

4155 brought · 1393 players

Brought to game

4155

Ever drawn

863

Reached battlefield

433

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.3pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=344) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=2499).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=339) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +1.5pp; 95% confidence interval -1.3pp to +4.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=433

10%

12%

53%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 22

On curve 4% (12 / 433 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

4787 of 300 tracked games 99%

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Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.