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Part of Secrets of Strixhaven
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Creature — Dog Warlock // Instant
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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
Live Play Data
Defacing Duskmage // Vandal's Edit
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Creature — Dog Warlock // Instant
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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
2%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
367
Decks Running
200
Median Cast Turn
4
Drawn → Played
72%
Format
First-cast turn
n=73
5%
T1
15%
T2
22%
T3
8%
T4
11%
T5
30%
T6-9
8%
T10+
Median
4
P25
3
· P75
7
· max
15
On curve
21%
(11 / 73 cast on T2)
Cast same turn as drawn
26%
The "good card" funnel
367 brought · 193 playersBrought to game
367
Ever drawn
102
Reached battlefield
73
Still on board at game end
32
Once cast, 44% 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.
≥ -10.0pp
Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=71) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=228).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=27).
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 +0.4pp; 95% confidence interval -10.0pp to +10.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
112 instances3.6%
Library
28.6%
Battlefield
38.4%
Graveyard
4.5%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Killian, Decisive Mentor
99 decks
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2
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
22 decks
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3
Codie, Ravenous Codex
20 decks
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4
Breena, the Demagogue
6 decks
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5
Silverquill, the Disputant
6 decks
-
6
Queen Marchesa
5 decks
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7
Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar
4 decks
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8
Eriette of the Charmed Apple
3 decks
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9
Queza, Augur of Agonies
3 decks
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10
Scriv, the Obligator
3 decks
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)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Daneen Wilkerson
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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.