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Defiling Daemogoth

{3} {B} {B} · Creature — Demon · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
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Times Brought
444
Decks Running
240
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
—
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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Defiling Daemogoth card

Defiling Daemogoth

{3} {B} {B}
Creature — Demon
Menace Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you gain 1 life. At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses X life, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.
5 / 4
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Quintin Gleim

Final zone distribution

112 instances
0.9%
Library
41.1%
Battlefield
16.1%
Graveyard
4.5%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

445 brought · 233 players
Brought to game
445
Ever drawn
110
Reached battlefield
70
Still on board at game end
46

Once cast, 66% 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.

≥ -4.0pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=57) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=211).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=26).

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 +3.2pp; 95% confidence interval -4.0pp to +10.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=70
0%
T1
0%
T2
4%
T3
6%
T4
9%
T5
51%
T6-9
30%
T10+
Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 20
On curve 19% (6 / 70 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.