Live Play Data

Darkness Descends

· Sorcery · Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

196

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=23

13%

61%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 9% (2 / 23 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 14%

The "good card" funnel

196 brought · 63 players

Brought to game

196

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.0pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=21) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=129).

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 +16.5pp; 95% confidence interval -4.0pp to +37.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

50 instances

4.0%

Library

4.0%

Battlefield

56.0%

Graveyard

12.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 35 decks
2 Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons 6 decks
3 High Perfect Morcant 5 decks
4 Koh, the Face Stealer 4 decks
5 The Reaper, King No More 4 decks
6 Doran, Besieged by Time 2 decks
7 The Great Goblin 2 decks
8 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie 1 decks
9 Jenova, Ancient Calamity 1 decks
10 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 1 decks

Card text

Darkness Descends

Sorcery

Put two -1/-1 counters on each creature.

Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Ralph Horsley

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.