Live Play Data

Dusk Mangler

· Creature — Horror · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

174

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=23

13%

57%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 18

On curve 52% (5 / 23 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

The "good card" funnel

174 brought · 82 players

Brought to game

174

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 61% 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.

≥ +2.6pp

Players who cast this card win 45% of the time (n=22) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=121).

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 +25.6pp; 95% confidence interval +2.6pp to +48.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

36 instances

8.3%

Library

38.9%

Battlefield

25.0%

Graveyard

5.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Captain N'ghathrod 50 decks
2 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 4 decks
3 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 2 decks
4 Glarb, Calamity's Augur 2 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 2 decks
6 Songbird, Sonic Screamer 2 decks
7 Superior Spider-Man 2 decks
8 Araumi of the Dead Tide 1 decks
9 Ardyn, the Usurper 1 decks
10 Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim 1 decks

Card text

Dusk Mangler

Creature — Horror

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature, discard a card, or pay 4 life. When this creature enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice, discards a card, and loses 4 life.

5 / 4

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Antonio José Manzanedo

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.