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Descent into Avernus

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

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Times Brought

821

Decks Running

406

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

177 instances

1.7%

Library

50.8%

Battlefield

14.1%

Graveyard

4.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Smaug the Magnificent 25 decks
2 Jaws, Relentless Predator 22 decks
3 Kratos, God of War 18 decks
4 Smaug the Impenetrable 15 decks
5 Kibo, Uktabi Prince 14 decks
6 Abaddon the Despoiler 13 decks
7 Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder 12 decks
8 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 12 decks
9 Obeka, Splitter of Seconds 12 decks
10 Mr. House, President and CEO 10 decks

The "good card" funnel

821 brought · 377 players

Brought to game

821

Ever drawn

163

Reached battlefield

103

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 87% 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.

≥ -7.4pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=85) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=511).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=43).

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 -1.6pp; 95% confidence interval -7.4pp to +4.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=103

12%

16%

21%

13%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 14

On curve 30% (16 / 103 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.