Live Play Data

Infernal Grasp

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

4748

Decks Running

2277

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=772

11%

16%

50%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 2% (14 / 772 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

4753 brought · 1763 players

Brought to game

4753

Ever drawn

1089

Reached battlefield

772

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.9pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=686) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=3033).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=268).

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 +5.2pp; 95% confidence interval +1.9pp to +8.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1225 instances

2.9%

Library

2.4%

Battlefield

64.5%

Graveyard

9.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 166 decks
2 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 161 decks
3 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 161 decks
4 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 122 decks
5 Felothar the Steadfast 83 decks
6 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 67 decks
7 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One 32 decks
8 Szarel, Genesis Shepherd 31 decks
9 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 29 decks
10 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 28 decks

Card text

Infernal Grasp

Instant

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Naomi Baker

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.