Live Play Data

Irenicus's Vile Duplication

· Sorcery · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1315

Decks Running

603

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=170

16%

62%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 11% (14 / 170 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

1322 brought · 553 players

Brought to game

1322

Ever drawn

287

Reached battlefield

170

Still on board at game end

≥ +6.8pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=158) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=856).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=106).

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 +14.4pp; 95% confidence interval +6.8pp to +21.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

346 instances

4.0%

Library

6.1%

Battlefield

56.6%

Graveyard

8.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 79 decks
2 Lord of the Nazgûl 24 decks
3 Homer, the Hermit 17 decks
4 Orvar, the All-Form 17 decks
5 The Mindskinner 16 decks
6 Gandalf, Party Guest 13 decks
7 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One 13 decks
8 Eluge, the Shoreless Sea 12 decks
9 Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist 11 decks
10 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 11 decks

Card text

Irenicus's Vile Duplication

Sorcery

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except the token has flying and it isn't legendary.

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Oleksandr Kozachenko

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.