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Drown in the Loch

· Instant · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

449

Decks Running

222

In Decks

1498

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Drown in the Loch

Instant

Choose one — • Counter target spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard. • Destroy target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by John Stanko

Final zone distribution

134 instances

2.2%

Library

2.2%

Battlefield

59.0%

Graveyard

7.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Captain N'ghathrod 54 decks
2 The Wise Mothman 19 decks
3 Phenax, God of Deception 13 decks
4 Homer, the Hermit 7 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 7 decks
6 Alela, Cunning Conqueror 6 decks
7 Lord of the Nazgûl 6 decks
8 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 4 decks
9 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 4 decks
10 Saruman of Many Colors 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

450 brought · 210 players

Brought to game

450

Ever drawn

105

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=50) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=265).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=41) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +13.0pp; 95% confidence interval -0.5pp to +26.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=55

69%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 18

On curve 2% (1 / 55 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

55 of 100 times cast 55%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.