Live Play Data

Diabolic Intent

· Sorcery · The Brothers' War (BRO)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

4644

Decks Running

1874

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=599

15%

50%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 23

On curve 5% (20 / 599 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

4645 brought · 1366 players

Brought to game

4645

Ever drawn

1022

Reached battlefield

599

Still on board at game end

≥ +4.6pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=532) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=2950).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=372).

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 +8.7pp; 95% confidence interval +4.6pp to +12.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1189 instances

2.5%

Library

2.4%

Battlefield

56.7%

Graveyard

10.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 98 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 76 decks
3 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 48 decks
4 Sauron, the Dark Lord 46 decks
5 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 37 decks
6 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 37 decks
7 Teysa Karlov 37 decks
8 Marrow-Gnawer 28 decks
9 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 27 decks
10 Marneus Calgar 23 decks

Card text

Diabolic Intent

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

The Brothers' War (BRO) · Rare · Illustrated by Dan Murayama Scott

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.