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Harsh Mentor

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

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Times Brought

611

Decks Running

273

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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.

2 / 2

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

Final zone distribution

127 instances

43.3%

Battlefield

32.3%

Graveyard

9.4%

Exile

15.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 107 decks
2 Éowyn, Shieldmaiden 67 decks
3 Aragorn, King of Gondor 18 decks
4 Yurlok of Scorch Thrash 11 decks
5 Mogis, God of Slaughter 9 decks
6 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 9 decks
7 Norin the Wary 6 decks
8 Zo-Zu the Punisher 6 decks
9 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell 5 decks
10 The Lord of Pain 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

611 brought · 257 players

Brought to game

611

Ever drawn

119

Reached battlefield

103

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ -4.2pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=77) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=346).

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 +2.0pp; 95% confidence interval -4.2pp to +8.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=103

12%

25%

13%

15%

12%

19%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 5 · max 11

On curve 37% (26 / 103 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

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.