Live Play Data

Crackling Doom

· Instant · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

956

Decks Running

433

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=143

13%

62%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 21

On curve 3% (4 / 143 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

956 brought · 420 players

Brought to game

956

Ever drawn

210

Reached battlefield

143

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=131) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=597).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=57).

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 +7.8pp; 95% confidence interval -0.3pp to +15.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

249 instances

2.0%

Library

2.4%

Battlefield

67.5%

Graveyard

7.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 123 decks
2 Edgar Markov 57 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 42 decks
4 Queen Marchesa 40 decks
5 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 25 decks
6 Omnath, Locus of All 16 decks
7 Celes, Rune Knight 11 decks
8 Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force 11 decks
9 Kelsien, the Plague 9 decks
10 Malik, Grim Manipulator 9 decks

Card text

Crackling Doom

Instant

Crackling Doom deals 2 damage to each opponent. Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls.

Double Masters 2022 (2X2) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Yohann Schepacz

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.