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Drown in the Loch

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

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Times Brought

683

Decks Running

314

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

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

146 instances

2.7%

Library

6.2%

Battlefield

51.4%

Graveyard

8.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Captain N'ghathrod 71 decks
2 The Wise Mothman 21 decks
3 Homer, the Hermit 13 decks
4 Phenax, God of Deception 12 decks
5 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 11 decks
6 Anowon, the Ruin Thief 10 decks
7 Umbris, Fear Manifest 9 decks
8 Lord Xander, the Collector 7 decks
9 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 6 decks
10 Saruman of Many Colors 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

683 brought · 299 players

Brought to game

683

Ever drawn

123

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.9pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=45) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=378).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=42).

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 +4.9pp; 95% confidence interval -2.9pp to +12.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=65

11%

69%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 6 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 3% (2 / 65 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.