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Damnation

· Sorcery · Double Masters 2022 (2X2)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

833

Decks Running

431

In Decks

3160

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Damnation

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

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

Final zone distribution

226 instances

5.8%

Library

3.1%

Battlefield

53.1%

Graveyard

9.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 12 decks
2 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 12 decks
3 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 8 decks
4 Sauron, the Dark Lord 8 decks
5 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 8 decks
6 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 6 decks
7 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 6 decks
8 Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor 6 decks
9 Marrow-Gnawer 6 decks
10 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

833 brought · 345 players

Brought to game

833

Ever drawn

192

Reached battlefield

111

Still on board at game end

≥ -7.0pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=104) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=526).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=66) — 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 +1.1pp; 95% confidence interval -7.0pp to +9.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=111

16%

59%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 20

On curve 9% (7 / 111 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

801 of 300 tracked games 99%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.