Live Play Data

Descent into Avernus

· Enchantment · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1147

Decks Running

540

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=198

13%

25%

17%

11%

26%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 15

On curve 40% (49 / 198 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

1147 brought · 477 players

Brought to game

1147

Ever drawn

294

Reached battlefield

198

Still on board at game end

145

Once cast, 73% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +0.4pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=180) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=721).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=86).

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 +7.5pp; 95% confidence interval +0.4pp to +14.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

320 instances

3.4%

Library

45.3%

Battlefield

24.4%

Graveyard

4.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Jaws, Relentless Predator 36 decks
2 Kibo, Uktabi Prince 30 decks
3 Smaug the Magnificent 23 decks
4 Smaug the Impenetrable 22 decks
5 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 19 decks
6 Kratos, God of War 16 decks
7 Obeka, Splitter of Seconds 16 decks
8 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut 15 decks
9 Abaddon the Despoiler 13 decks
10 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 13 decks

Card text

Descent into Avernus

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, put two descent counters on this enchantment. Then each player creates X Treasure tokens and this enchantment deals X damage to each player, where X is the number of descent counters on this enchantment.

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Rare · Illustrated by Bruce Brenneise

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.