Live Play Data

Demonic Counsel

· Sorcery · Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

810

Decks Running

364

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=103

13%

10%

16%

11%

46%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 17% (13 / 103 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

811 brought · 340 players

Brought to game

811

Ever drawn

169

Reached battlefield

103

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=91) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=526).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (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 +11.8pp; 95% confidence interval +2.4pp to +21.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

203 instances

2.0%

Library

1.5%

Battlefield

54.7%

Graveyard

18.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kaalia of the Vast 68 decks
2 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 52 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 26 decks
4 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 21 decks
5 Ardyn, the Usurper 14 decks
6 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 13 decks
7 Raphael, Fiendish Savior 10 decks
8 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 7 decks
9 Winter, Misanthropic Guide 7 decks
10 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 6 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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.