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Dark Ritual

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

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Times Brought

8104

Decks Running

3866

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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Dark Ritual

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

Final zone distribution

1928 instances

2.1%

Library

3.3%

Battlefield

66.4%

Graveyard

9.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 134 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 108 decks
3 Edgar Markov 73 decks
4 Fire Lord Azula 71 decks
5 Kaalia of the Vast 71 decks
6 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 68 decks
7 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 59 decks
8 Marrow-Gnawer 55 decks
9 Smaug the Impenetrable 54 decks
10 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 52 decks

The "good card" funnel

8109 brought · 2333 players

Brought to game

8109

Ever drawn

1761

Reached battlefield

1343

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.0pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=1050) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=4483).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=307).

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 +2.6pp; 95% confidence interval +1.0pp to +4.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=1343

16%

14%

12%

13%

11%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 19

On curve 16% (214 / 1343 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.