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Infernal Grasp

· Instant · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

3114

Decks Running

1567

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

Infernal Grasp

Instant

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

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

Final zone distribution

684 instances

1.2%

Library

2.8%

Battlefield

66.5%

Graveyard

7.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 153 decks
2 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 121 decks
3 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 113 decks
4 Hearthhull, the Worldseed 104 decks
5 Felothar the Steadfast 56 decks
6 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 50 decks
7 Szarel, Genesis Shepherd 37 decks
8 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 19 decks
9 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 17 decks
10 Edgar Markov 17 decks

The "good card" funnel

3116 brought · 1276 players

Brought to game

3116

Ever drawn

624

Reached battlefield

455

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=346) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1728).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=126).

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 +0.5pp; 95% confidence interval -2.4pp to +3.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=455

10%

17%

41%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 26

On curve 4% (14 / 455 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

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.