Live Play Data

Diabolic Intent

· Sorcery · The Brothers' War (BRO)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3154

Decks Running

1421

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=409

14%

53%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 23

On curve 3% (9 / 409 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

3155 brought · 1077 players

Brought to game

3155

Ever drawn

699

Reached battlefield

409

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.6pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=361) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1983).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=252).

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 +7.4pp; 95% confidence interval +2.6pp to +12.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

810 instances

2.5%

Library

2.5%

Battlefield

55.7%

Graveyard

10.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 79 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 58 decks
3 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 40 decks
4 Sauron, the Dark Lord 37 decks
5 Teysa Karlov 34 decks
6 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 29 decks
7 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 26 decks
8 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 25 decks
9 Marneus Calgar 20 decks
10 Marrow-Gnawer 19 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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.