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Dark Ritual

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

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Times Brought

2435

Decks Running

1259

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.

Final zone distribution

589 instances

2.4%

Library

3.1%

Battlefield

66.2%

Graveyard

9.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 45 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 38 decks
3 Edgar Markov 28 decks
4 Marrow-Gnawer 24 decks
5 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 23 decks
6 Fire Lord Azula 20 decks
7 Kaalia of the Vast 19 decks
8 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 18 decks
9 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 18 decks
10 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 16 decks

The "good card" funnel

2438 brought · 883 players

Brought to game

2438

Ever drawn

534

Reached battlefield

403

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=341) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1452).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=97) — 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 +4.5pp; 95% confidence interval +1.7pp to +7.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=403

15%

12%

15%

12%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 19

On curve 15% (60 / 403 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

2874 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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.