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Gratuitous Violence

· Enchantment · Foundations (FDN)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

453

Decks Running

240

In Decks

1563

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

114 instances

7.9%

Library

37.7%

Battlefield

14.9%

Graveyard

4.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles 71 decks
2 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 13 decks
3 Kratos, God of War 11 decks
4 Vrondiss, Rage of Ancients 7 decks
5 Brion Stoutarm 5 decks
6 The Lord of Pain 5 decks
7 Wolverine, Best There Is 5 decks
8 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight 4 decks
9 Krenko, Mob Boss 4 decks
10 Aurelia, the Warleader 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

454 brought · 218 players

Brought to game

454

Ever drawn

108

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

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.

≥ -7.9pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=49) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=301).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=48) — 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 +3.8pp; 95% confidence interval -7.9pp to +15.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=57

11%

14%

60%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 26% (8 / 57 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

57 of 100 times cast 56%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.