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Damnable Pact

· Sorcery · New Capenna Commander (NCC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

221

Decks Running

135

In Decks

804

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Damnable Pact

Sorcery

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

New Capenna Commander (NCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Zack Stella

Final zone distribution

62 instances

1.6%

Library

9.7%

Battlefield

48.4%

Graveyard

8.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 31 decks
2 Witherbloom, the Balancer 24 decks
3 Edgar Markov 13 decks
4 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 6 decks
5 Anhelo, the Painter 5 decks
6 Strefan, Maurer Progenitor 5 decks
7 Zaxara, the Exemplary 4 decks
8 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival 4 decks
9 Rowan, Scion of War 3 decks
10 Belbe, Corrupted Observer 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

222 brought · 131 players

Brought to game

222

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.8pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=26) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=142).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=27) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +14.4pp; 95% confidence interval -3.8pp to +32.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=28

14%

50%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 15

Cast same turn as drawn 29%

28 of 100 times cast 28%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.