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Live Play Data

Grapple with Death

{1} {B} {G} · Sorcery · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
185
Decks Running
90
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
78%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=31
0%
T1
0%
T2
3%
T3
6%
T4
29%
T5
58%
T6-9
3%
T10+
Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 11
On curve 3% (1 / 31 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

185 brought · 87 players
Brought to game
185
Ever drawn
40
Reached battlefield
31
Still on board at game end
0
≥ -17.4pp

Players who cast this card win 16% of the time (n=28) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=117).

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 -3.4pp; 95% confidence interval -17.4pp to +10.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

45 instances
4.4%
Library
60.0%
Graveyard
15.6%
Exile
20.0%
Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Grapple with Death card

Grapple with Death

{1} {B} {G}
Sorcery
Destroy target artifact or creature. You gain 1 life.
Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Common · Illustrated by Nereida

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.