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Demonic Consultation

· Instant · Masters Edition II (ME2)

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Times Brought

824

Decks Running

406

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

Final zone distribution

240 instances

2.5%

Library

27.9%

Battlefield

30.0%

Graveyard

12.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 31 decks
2 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 24 decks
3 Tymna the Weaver 21 decks
4 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 21 decks
5 Kraum, Ludevic's Opus 17 decks
6 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 15 decks
7 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 14 decks
8 Marneus Calgar 13 decks
9 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 12 decks
10 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled 11 decks

The "good card" funnel

825 brought · 354 players

Brought to game

825

Ever drawn

212

Reached battlefield

131

Still on board at game end

≥ +8.1pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=104) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=371).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=56).

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 +13.2pp; 95% confidence interval +8.1pp to +18.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=131

14%

15%

14%

36%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 4% (5 / 131 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

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.