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Decree of Pain

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

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Times Brought

1019

Decks Running

535

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.

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}

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, 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

Final zone distribution

209 instances

2.4%

Library

3.8%

Battlefield

37.8%

Graveyard

6.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 88 decks
2 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 82 decks
3 Hazel of the Rootbloom 74 decks
4 Abaddon the Despoiler 43 decks
5 Sauron, the Dark Lord 33 decks
6 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 18 decks
7 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 14 decks
8 Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge 12 decks
9 Lord of the Nazgûl 12 decks
10 Marvo, Deep Operative 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

1020 brought · 476 players

Brought to game

1020

Ever drawn

189

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -7.8pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=49) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=587).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=91).

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 -0.7pp; 95% confidence interval -7.8pp to +6.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=64

73%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 63% (11 / 64 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

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.