Live Play Data

Decree of Pain

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

809

Decks Running

457

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

44%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=86

73%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 67% (21 / 86 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

816 brought · 425 players

Brought to game

816

Ever drawn

197

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=79) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=512).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=102).

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 +7.6pp; 95% confidence interval -2.0pp to +17.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

223 instances

4.5%

Library

3.1%

Battlefield

43.9%

Graveyard

4.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 79 decks
2 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 60 decks
3 Hazel of the Rootbloom 42 decks
4 Sauron, the Dark Lord 36 decks
5 Abaddon the Despoiler 30 decks
6 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 15 decks
7 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 13 decks
8 The Lord of Pain 9 decks
9 Queen Marchesa 7 decks
10 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest 7 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.