Live Play Data

Harsh Mentor

· Creature — Human Cleric · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

978

Decks Running

464

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

82%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=161

22%

10%

17%

28%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 29% (36 / 161 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

979 brought · 427 players

Brought to game

979

Ever drawn

196

Reached battlefield

161

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 38% 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.

≥ -7.0pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=145) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=655).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=32).

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 -0.3pp; 95% confidence interval -7.0pp to +6.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

211 instances

1.4%

Library

28.9%

Battlefield

46.9%

Graveyard

8.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 178 decks
2 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 78 decks
3 Yurlok of Scorch Thrash 25 decks
4 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 24 decks
5 The Lord of Pain 21 decks
6 Norin the Wary 16 decks
7 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed 13 decks
8 Aragorn, King of Gondor 12 decks
9 Zo-Zu the Punisher 12 decks
10 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell 9 decks

Card text

Harsh Mentor

Creature — Human Cleric

Whenever an opponent activates an ability of an artifact, creature, or land on the battlefield, if it isn't a mana ability, this creature deals 2 damage to that player.

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Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Shreya Shetty

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.