Live Play Data

Decree of Pain

· Sorcery · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1496

Decks Running

782

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

42%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=152

63%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 16

On curve 60% (33 / 152 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

1503 brought · 713 players

Brought to game

1503

Ever drawn

365

Reached battlefield

152

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.5pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=133) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=931).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=186).

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 +4.4pp; 95% confidence interval -2.5pp to +11.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

416 instances

3.8%

Library

2.9%

Battlefield

46.9%

Graveyard

4.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 126 decks
2 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 98 decks
3 Hazel of the Rootbloom 71 decks
4 Abaddon the Despoiler 62 decks
5 Sauron, the Dark Lord 61 decks
6 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 20 decks
7 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 18 decks
8 Queen Marchesa 14 decks
9 Lord of the Nazgûl 12 decks
10 Marvo, Deep Operative 11 decks

Card text

Decree of Pain

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way. Cycling {3}

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Mathias Kollros

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.