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Fear of Burning Alive

· Enchantment Creature — Nightmare · Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

138

Decks Running

In Decks

432

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Fear of Burning Alive

Enchantment Creature — Nightmare

When this creature enters, it deals 4 damage to each opponent. Delirium — Whenever a source you control deals noncombat damage to an opponent, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, this creature deals that amount of damage to target creature that player controls.

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Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK) · Uncommon · Illustrated by J.P. Targete

Final zone distribution

38 instances

7.9%

Library

21.1%

Battlefield

34.2%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 44 decks
2 Winter, Misanthropic Guide 5 decks
3 The Jolly Balloon Man 3 decks
4 The Lord of Pain 3 decks
5 Neriv, Heart of the Storm 2 decks
6 Arthur, Marigold Knight 1 decks
7 Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar 1 decks
8 Avalanche of Sector 7 1 decks
9 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 1 decks
10 Durnan of the Yawning Portal 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

138 brought · 73 players

Brought to game

138

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -26.5pp

Players who cast this card win 16% of the time (n=16) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=94).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 10% (n=17) — 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 -8.2pp; 95% confidence interval -26.5pp to +10.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

17 of 100 times cast 17%

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

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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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.