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Desperate Ritual

· Instant — Arcane · Ultimate Masters (UMA)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

192

Decks Running

107

In Decks

890

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

53 instances

7.5%

Library

9.4%

Battlefield

52.8%

Graveyard

13.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Fire Lord Azula 14 decks
2 Thor, God of Thunder 6 decks
3 Prismari, the Inspiration 5 decks
4 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos 4 decks
5 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 4 decks
6 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 3 decks
7 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 3 decks
8 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 3 decks
9 Abaddon the Despoiler 2 decks
10 Alania, Divergent Storm 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

196 brought · 95 players

Brought to game

196

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -20.3pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=33) , vs 33% when it never left the library (n=126).

Observed gap -4.1pp; 95% confidence interval -20.3pp to +12.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=33

12%

15%

52%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 6% (1 / 33 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

33 of 100 times cast 33%

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.