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Counterspell

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

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Times Brought

13314

Decks Running

6377

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

3041 instances

2.7%

Library

3.5%

Battlefield

46.3%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vivi Ornitier 103 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 97 decks
3 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 81 decks
4 Sai, Master Thopterist 79 decks
5 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 73 decks
6 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 71 decks
7 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 71 decks
8 Jodah, the Unifier 70 decks
9 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 64 decks
10 Tony Stark // The Invincible Iron Man 61 decks

The "good card" funnel

13328 brought · 3485 players

Brought to game

13328

Ever drawn

2724

Reached battlefield

1378

Still on board at game end

105

≥ +0.4pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=1105) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=7600).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=1000).

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 +1.9pp; 95% confidence interval +0.4pp to +3.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=1378

10%

14%

54%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 24

On curve 3% (29 / 1378 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

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.