Live Play Data

Dark Ritual

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

25%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

17039

Decks Running

7379

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=3147

11%

13%

12%

13%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 22

On curve 7% (226 / 3147 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

17061 brought · 3869 players

Brought to game

17061

Ever drawn

4249

Reached battlefield

3147

Still on board at game end

133

≥ +5.5pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=2842) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=10500).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=952).

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 +7.3pp; 95% confidence interval +5.5pp to +9.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

4837 instances

2.9%

Library

2.7%

Battlefield

66.5%

Graveyard

9.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 193 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 187 decks
3 Fire Lord Azula 133 decks
4 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 119 decks
5 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 119 decks
6 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 111 decks
7 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 107 decks
8 Edgar Markov 103 decks
9 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 91 decks
10 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 91 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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.