Live Play Data

Diabolic Intent

· Sorcery · The Brothers' War (BRO)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2030

Decks Running

962

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=257

16%

12%

55%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 2% (4 / 257 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

2031 brought · 758 players

Brought to game

2031

Ever drawn

450

Reached battlefield

257

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=235) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1268).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=170).

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 +6.9pp; 95% confidence interval +1.1pp to +12.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

528 instances

3.0%

Library

2.5%

Battlefield

52.5%

Graveyard

12.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 53 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 40 decks
3 Teysa Karlov 26 decks
4 Sauron, the Dark Lord 25 decks
5 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 24 decks
6 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 20 decks
7 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 19 decks
8 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 15 decks
9 Marneus Calgar 14 decks
10 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 14 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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.