Live Play Data

Demonic Consultation

· Instant · Masters Edition II (ME2)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1369

Decks Running

592

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=255

12%

16%

13%

45%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 3% (7 / 255 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

The "good card" funnel

1371 brought · 514 players

Brought to game

1371

Ever drawn

421

Reached battlefield

255

Still on board at game end

122

≥ +22.1pp

Players who cast this card win 49% of the time (n=231) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=774).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=150).

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 +28.6pp; 95% confidence interval +22.1pp to +35.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

502 instances

3.6%

Library

24.3%

Battlefield

29.9%

Graveyard

16.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 36 decks
2 Tymna the Weaver 33 decks
3 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 27 decks
4 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 26 decks
5 Marneus Calgar 21 decks
6 Kraum, Ludevic's Opus 19 decks
7 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 18 decks
8 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 15 decks
9 Najeela, the Blade-Blossom 15 decks
10 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled 14 decks

Card text

Demonic Consultation

Instant

Choose a card name. Exile the top six cards of your library, then reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card with the chosen name. Put that card into your hand and exile all other cards revealed this way.

Masters Edition II (ME2) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Rob Alexander

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.