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Demonic Counsel

· Sorcery · Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

233

Decks Running

129

In Decks

986

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

51 instances

52.9%

Graveyard

23.5%

Exile

23.5%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kaalia of the Vast 26 decks
2 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 19 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 10 decks
4 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 5 decks
5 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 5 decks
6 Ardyn, the Usurper 4 decks
7 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 4 decks
8 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable 3 decks
9 Raphael, Fiendish Savior 3 decks
10 Baron Helmut Zemo 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

234 brought · 127 players

Brought to game

234

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 45% of the time (n=19) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=161).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=17) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +19.5pp; 95% confidence interval -0.3pp to +39.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=20

10%

15%

10%

50%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 10% (0 / 20 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 50%

20 of 100 times cast 20%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.