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Descent into Avernus

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

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Times Brought

369

Decks Running

173

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

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

Final zone distribution

83 instances

3.6%

Library

53.0%

Battlefield

10.8%

Graveyard

8.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Jaws, Relentless Predator 10 decks
2 Smaug the Magnificent 9 decks
3 Kratos, God of War 8 decks
4 Smaug the Impenetrable 8 decks
5 Kibo, Uktabi Prince 6 decks
6 Obeka, Splitter of Seconds 6 decks
7 Mr. House, President and CEO 5 decks
8 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 5 decks
9 Daredevil, Fearless Fighter 4 decks
10 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

369 brought · 164 players

Brought to game

369

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 81% 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.

≥ -8.2pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=44) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=233).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=15) — 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 +-0.0pp; 95% confidence interval -8.2pp to +8.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=54

13%

15%

24%

13%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 9

On curve 31% (8 / 54 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

54 of 100 times cast 54%

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.