Live Play Data

Demonic Counsel

· Sorcery · Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

430

Decks Running

221

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=44

11%

50%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 14% (3 / 44 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

431 brought · 213 players

Brought to game

431

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=40) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=292).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=31).

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 +15.0pp; 95% confidence interval +1.4pp to +28.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

99 instances

2.0%

Library

2.0%

Battlefield

51.5%

Graveyard

21.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kaalia of the Vast 42 decks
2 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 29 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 18 decks
4 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 12 decks
5 Ardyn, the Usurper 11 decks
6 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 7 decks
7 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 6 decks
8 Raphael, Fiendish Savior 6 decks
9 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 5 decks
10 Winter, Misanthropic Guide 4 decks

Card text

Demonic Counsel

Sorcery

Search your library for a Demon card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead search your library for any card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK) · Rare · Illustrated by Babs Webb

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.