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Defacing Duskmage // Vandal's Edit

· Creature — Dog Warlock // Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

154

Decks Running

100

In Decks

546

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Defacing Duskmage

Creature — Dog Warlock

Deathtouch Whenever an opponent draws their second card each turn, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)

2 / 2

Vandal's Edit

Instant

Draw two cards. Each player loses 2 life.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Daneen Wilkerson

Final zone distribution

47 instances

4.3%

Library

27.7%

Battlefield

38.3%

Graveyard

6.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

154 brought · 101 players

Brought to game

154

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 38% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -18.2pp

Players who cast this card win 15% of the time (n=34) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=95).

Observed gap -5.1pp; 95% confidence interval -18.2pp to +8.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=34

18%

12%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 26% (6 / 34 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

34 of 100 times cast 34%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.