Live Play Data

Hexing Squelcher

· Creature — Goblin Sorcerer · Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1434

Decks Running

641

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=263

21%

11%

13%

14%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 27% (55 / 263 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 47%

The "good card" funnel

1434 brought · 490 players

Brought to game

1434

Ever drawn

344

Reached battlefield

263

Still on board at game end

158

Once cast, 60% 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.

≥ +-0.0pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=234) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=906).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=72).

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 +6.1pp; 95% confidence interval +-0.0pp to +12.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

380 instances

4.5%

Library

41.6%

Battlefield

27.1%

Graveyard

9.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 54 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 25 decks
3 Smaug the Impenetrable 19 decks
4 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 15 decks
5 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 14 decks
6 Fire Lord Azula 13 decks
7 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 11 decks
8 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 11 decks
9 Winota, Joiner of Forces 11 decks
10 Lorehold, the Historian 9 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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.