Live Play Data

Hexing Squelcher

· Creature — Goblin Sorcerer · Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2877

Decks Running

1194

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=538

20%

12%

13%

14%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 17

On curve 26% (107 / 538 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 50%

The "good card" funnel

2877 brought · 876 players

Brought to game

2877

Ever drawn

707

Reached battlefield

538

Still on board at game end

310

Once cast, 58% 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.

≥ -0.6pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=485) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=1813).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=147).

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 +3.7pp; 95% confidence interval -0.6pp to +8.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

771 instances

4.3%

Library

40.2%

Battlefield

30.1%

Graveyard

8.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 92 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 52 decks
3 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 39 decks
4 Smaug the Impenetrable 36 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 25 decks
6 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 24 decks
7 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 20 decks
8 Fire Lord Azula 17 decks
9 Kratos, God of War 17 decks
10 Winota, Joiner of Forces 17 decks

Card text

Hexing Squelcher

Creature — Goblin Sorcerer

This spell can't be countered. Ward—Pay 2 life. Spells you control can't be countered. Other creatures you control have "Ward—Pay 2 life."

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Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL) · Rare · Illustrated by Matt Stewart

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.