Live Play Data

Damnation

· Sorcery · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1786

Decks Running

856

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=260

14%

56%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 20

On curve 10% (18 / 260 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

1786 brought · 667 players

Brought to game

1786

Ever drawn

422

Reached battlefield

260

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.3pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=238) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1144).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=143).

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 +0.2pp; 95% confidence interval -5.3pp to +5.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

484 instances

4.5%

Library

3.3%

Battlefield

56.6%

Graveyard

8.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 22 decks
2 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 22 decks
3 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 19 decks
4 Sauron, the Dark Lord 16 decks
5 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 16 decks
6 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 14 decks
7 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 11 decks
8 The Scarab God 11 decks
9 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 10 decks
10 Marrow-Gnawer 10 decks

Card text

Damnation

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Double Masters 2022 (2X2) · Rare · Illustrated by Kev Walker

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.