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Crippling Fear

· Sorcery · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

758

Decks Running

369

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

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

Final zone distribution

171 instances

5.8%

Library

6.4%

Battlefield

43.9%

Graveyard

4.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Captain N'ghathrod 44 decks
2 Edgar Markov 37 decks
3 Gisa and Geralf 34 decks
4 Vren, the Relentless 26 decks
5 Sliver Gravemother 21 decks
6 The First Sliver 15 decks
7 Marrow-Gnawer 14 decks
8 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 9 decks
9 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 8 decks
10 Karumonix, the Rat King 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

758 brought · 343 players

Brought to game

758

Ever drawn

157

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.2pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=62) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=396).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=55).

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 +2.5pp; 95% confidence interval -4.2pp to +9.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=76

18%

59%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 14% (7 / 76 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

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.