Live Play Data

Gratuitous Violence

· Enchantment · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1023

Decks Running

491

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=140

11%

18%

54%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 31% (25 / 140 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

1031 brought · 452 players

Brought to game

1031

Ever drawn

238

Reached battlefield

140

Still on board at game end

105

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ -0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=118) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=667).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=85).

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 +7.0pp; 95% confidence interval -0.9pp to +15.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

255 instances

7.5%

Library

41.2%

Battlefield

20.0%

Graveyard

3.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 152 decks
2 Kratos, God of War 33 decks
3 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 24 decks
4 Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients 14 decks
5 Krenko, Mob Boss 8 decks
6 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 8 decks
7 Wolverine, Best There Is 8 decks
8 Brion Stoutarm 7 decks
9 Heartless Hidetsugu 7 decks
10 Smaug the Magnificent 7 decks

Card text

Gratuitous Violence

Enchantment

If a creature you control would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage instead.

Foundations (FDN) · Rare · Illustrated by Jesper Ejsing

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.