Dictate of Erebos card art
Live Play Data

Dictate of Erebos

{3} {B} {B} · Enchantment · Journey into Nyx (JOU)
3%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
594
Decks Running
331
Median Cast Turn
7
Drawn → Played
56%
Format

First-cast turn

n=69
0%
T1
0%
T2
4%
T3
7%
T4
17%
T5
49%
T6-9
22%
T10+
Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 16
On curve 29% (12 / 69 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

595 brought · 307 players
Brought to game
595
Ever drawn
123
Reached battlefield
69
Still on board at game end
45

Once cast, 65% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +3.4pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=65) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=392).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=49).

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 +15.5pp; 95% confidence interval +3.4pp to +27.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

134 instances
3.7%
Library
33.6%
Battlefield
23.9%
Graveyard
6.0%
Exile
Card text
Dictate of Erebos card

Dictate of Erebos

{3} {B} {B}
Enchantment
Flash Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Journey into Nyx (JOU) · Rare · Illustrated by Michael C. Hayes

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.