Live Play Data

Force of Despair

· Instant · Modern Horizons (MH1)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1125

Decks Running

400

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=131

21%

53%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 5% (5 / 131 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

1126 brought · 354 players

Brought to game

1126

Ever drawn

240

Reached battlefield

131

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.4pp

Players who cast this card win 42% of the time (n=116) , vs 32% when it never left the library (n=723).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=98).

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 +9.7pp; 95% confidence interval +0.4pp to +19.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

287 instances

5.2%

Library

1.0%

Battlefield

53.3%

Graveyard

13.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Vren, the Relentless 27 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 25 decks
3 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow 23 decks
4 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 22 decks
5 Jodah, the Unifier 17 decks
6 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 13 decks
7 The Lord of Pain 13 decks
8 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 10 decks
9 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 10 decks
10 Toshiro Umezawa 9 decks

Card text

Force of Despair

Instant

If it's not your turn, you may exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy all creatures that entered this turn.

Modern Horizons (MH1) · Rare · Illustrated by Seb McKinnon

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.