Live Play Data

Dark Ritual

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

25%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

9011

Decks Running

4339

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1648

11%

14%

12%

13%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 22

On curve 11% (179 / 1648 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

9022 brought · 2485 players

Brought to game

9022

Ever drawn

2210

Reached battlefield

1648

Still on board at game end

≥ +4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=1493) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=5578).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=480).

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 +7.1pp; 95% confidence interval +4.7pp to +9.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

2517 instances

3.2%

Library

2.4%

Battlefield

66.3%

Graveyard

10.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 137 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 116 decks
3 Fire Lord Azula 88 decks
4 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 80 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 73 decks
6 Edgar Markov 69 decks
7 Smaug the Impenetrable 69 decks
8 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 67 decks
9 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 66 decks
10 Kaalia of the Vast 54 decks

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Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Nino Is

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.