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Diabolic Intent

· Sorcery · The Brothers' War (BRO)

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Times Brought

3508

Decks Running

1568

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

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

Final zone distribution

776 instances

3.2%

Library

2.4%

Battlefield

53.7%

Graveyard

9.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 94 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 62 decks
3 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 50 decks
4 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 44 decks
5 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 37 decks
6 Sauron, the Dark Lord 31 decks
7 Teysa Karlov 27 decks
8 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 26 decks
9 Marrow-Gnawer 26 decks
10 Kaalia of the Vast 24 decks

The "good card" funnel

3509 brought · 1196 players

Brought to game

3509

Ever drawn

684

Reached battlefield

403

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.6pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=312) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1932).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=223).

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 +0.4pp; 95% confidence interval -2.6pp to +3.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=403

12%

13%

52%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 4% (12 / 403 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.