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Crackling Doom

· Instant · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)

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Times Brought

427

Decks Running

244

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

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

Final zone distribution

95 instances

7.4%

Battlefield

58.9%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

28.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 81 decks
2 Edgar Markov 47 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 29 decks
4 Queen Marchesa 11 decks
5 Omnath, Locus of All 10 decks
6 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 7 decks
7 Celes, Rune Knight 6 decks
8 Megatron, Tyrant // Megatron, Destructive Force 6 decks
9 Kelsien, the Plague 5 decks
10 Saskia the Unyielding 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

427 brought · 226 players

Brought to game

427

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.8pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=37) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=233).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=23).

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 +1.6pp; 95% confidence interval -6.8pp to +10.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=50

58%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 14% (4 / 50 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

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.