Live Play Data

Dark Ritual

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

24%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

5232

Decks Running

2669

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=955

12%

11%

13%

11%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 22

On curve 12% (116 / 955 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

5243 brought · 1635 players

Brought to game

5243

Ever drawn

1286

Reached battlefield

955

Still on board at game end

≥ +3.7pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=865) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=3264).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=284).

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 +6.8pp; 95% confidence interval +3.7pp to +9.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1464 instances

3.3%

Library

2.3%

Battlefield

65.8%

Graveyard

11.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 80 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 62 decks
3 Fire Lord Azula 56 decks
4 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 45 decks
5 Edgar Markov 44 decks
6 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 44 decks
7 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 41 decks
8 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 39 decks
9 Smaug the Impenetrable 34 decks
10 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 33 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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.