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Diabolic Intent

· Sorcery · The Brothers' War (BRO)

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Times Brought

1377

Decks Running

667

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

292 instances

3.4%

Library

1.7%

Battlefield

53.1%

Graveyard

10.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 45 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 26 decks
3 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 22 decks
4 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 18 decks
5 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 18 decks
6 Najeela, the Blade-Blossom 12 decks
7 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 11 decks
8 Sauron, the Dark Lord 11 decks
9 Tymna the Weaver 11 decks
10 Marrow-Gnawer 10 decks

The "good card" funnel

1378 brought · 547 players

Brought to game

1378

Ever drawn

257

Reached battlefield

146

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.4pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=113) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=802).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=94).

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 +0.6pp; 95% confidence interval -4.4pp to +5.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=146

10%

16%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 19

On curve 10% (12 / 146 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

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.