Live Play Data

Infernal Grasp

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3561

Decks Running

1775

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=587

10%

15%

53%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 2% (13 / 587 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

3566 brought · 1418 players

Brought to game

3566

Ever drawn

809

Reached battlefield

587

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.3pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=525) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=2262).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=188).

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 +3.6pp; 95% confidence interval -0.3pp to +7.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

911 instances

2.6%

Library

2.9%

Battlefield

64.7%

Graveyard

10.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 145 decks
2 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 128 decks
3 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 125 decks
4 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 97 decks
5 Felothar the Steadfast 70 decks
6 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 56 decks
7 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One 26 decks
8 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 23 decks
9 Szarel, Genesis Shepherd 22 decks
10 Alela, Cunning Conqueror 21 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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.