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Defile
·
Instant
·
Modern Horizons (MH1)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
186
Decks Running
112
In Decks
905
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Final zone distribution
53 instances3.8%
Library
5.7%
Battlefield
47.2%
Graveyard
17.0%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Szarekh, the Silent King
10 decks
-
2
Imotekh the Stormlord
7 decks
-
3
Marrow-Gnawer
6 decks
-
4
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
6 decks
-
5
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
5 decks
-
6
Massacre Girl, Known Killer
5 decks
-
7
Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
4 decks
-
8
Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
3 decks
-
9
Toshiro Umezawa
3 decks
-
10
Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast
3 decks
The "good card" funnel
190 brought · 112 playersBrought to game
190
Ever drawn
43
Reached battlefield
25
Still on board at game end
3
≥ -7.4pp
Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=25) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=125).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=17) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.
Observed gap +12.4pp; 95% confidence interval -7.4pp to +32.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=25
4%
T1
0%
T2
0%
T3
20%
T4
12%
T5
48%
T6-9
16%
T10+
Median
7
P25
5
· P75
8
· max
18
On curve
4%
(1 / 25 cast on T1)
Cast same turn as drawn
28%
25 of 100 times cast
25%
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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.