Live Play Data

Crippling Fear

· Sorcery · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

508

Decks Running

296

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

48%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=53

32%

49%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 2% (0 / 53 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

508 brought · 272 players

Brought to game

508

Ever drawn

110

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.8pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=50) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=329).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=50).

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 +6.7pp; 95% confidence interval -4.8pp to +18.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

121 instances

6.6%

Library

1.7%

Battlefield

48.8%

Graveyard

12.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Captain N'ghathrod 36 decks
2 Edgar Markov 27 decks
3 Gisa and Geralf 21 decks
4 Vren, the Relentless 21 decks
5 Marrow-Gnawer 16 decks
6 Sliver Gravemother 12 decks
7 The First Sliver 9 decks
8 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 8 decks
9 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 8 decks
10 Karumonix, the Rat King 7 decks

Card text

Crippling Fear

Sorcery

Choose a creature type. Creatures that aren't of the chosen type get -3/-3 until end of turn.

Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Néstor Ossandón Leal

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.