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Dismember

· Instant · Modern Masters 2015 (MM2)

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Times Brought

1442

Decks Running

642

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

Dismember

Instant

(

can be paid with either {B}

or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Modern Masters 2015 (MM2) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Terese Nielsen

Final zone distribution

333 instances

3.3%

Library

3.9%

Battlefield

61.0%

Graveyard

11.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 125 decks
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 37 decks
3 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 36 decks
4 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 27 decks
5 Sauron, the Dark Lord 18 decks
6 Deadpool, Trading Card 14 decks
7 Sisay, Weatherlight Captain 12 decks
8 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 11 decks
9 Rowan, Scion of War 10 decks
10 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 10 decks

The "good card" funnel

1454 brought · 526 players

Brought to game

1454

Ever drawn

296

Reached battlefield

205

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.8pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=163) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=757).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=69).

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 +2.4pp; 95% confidence interval -1.8pp to +6.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=205

13%

18%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 21

On curve 25% (26 / 205 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.