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Force of Despair
·
Instant
·
Modern Horizons (MH1)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
170
Decks Running
81
In Decks
565
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format
Final zone distribution
47 instances8.5%
Library
61.7%
Graveyard
17.0%
Exile
12.8%
Hand
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Vren, the Relentless
5 decks
-
2
Toshiro Umezawa
4 decks
-
3
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
3 decks
-
4
Marrow-Gnawer
3 decks
-
5
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
3 decks
-
6
The Lord of Pain
3 decks
-
7
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
3 decks
-
8
Astarion, the Decadent
2 decks
-
9
Baron Helmut Zemo
2 decks
-
10
Captain N'ghathrod
2 decks
The "good card" funnel
171 brought · 71 playersBrought to game
171
Ever drawn
35
Reached battlefield
23
Still on board at game end
0
≥ -8.7pp
Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=21) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=113).
Observed gap +13.1pp; 95% confidence interval -8.7pp to +34.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=23
0%
T1
0%
T2
0%
T3
9%
T4
17%
T5
48%
T6-9
26%
T10+
Median
7
P25
5
· P75
10
· max
11
On curve
0%
(0 / 23 cast on T3)
Cast same turn as drawn
10%
23 of 100 times cast
23%
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 630,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.