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Part of Duskmourn: House of Horror
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Legendary Planeswalker — Kaito
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Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK)
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Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
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Legendary Planeswalker — Kaito
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Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK)
Times Brought
185
Decks Running
83
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format
Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.
Card text
Kaito, Bane of Nightmares
Legendary Planeswalker — Kaito
Ninjutsu 
(, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
During your turn, as long as Kaito has one or more loyalty counters on him, he's a 3/4 Ninja creature and has hexproof.
+1: You get an emblem with "Ninjas you control get +1/+1."
0: Surveil 2. Then draw a card for each opponent who lost life this turn.
−2: Tap target creature. Put two stun counters on it.
(, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
During your turn, as long as Kaito has one or more loyalty counters on him, he's a 3/4 Ninja creature and has hexproof.
+1: You get an emblem with "Ninjas you control get +1/+1."
0: Surveil 2. Then draw a card for each opponent who lost life this turn.
−2: Tap target creature. Put two stun counters on it.Loyalty 4
Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK)
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Mythic
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Illustrated by Joshua Raphael
Final zone distribution
43 instances4.7%
Library
41.9%
Battlefield
18.6%
Graveyard
7.0%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow
42 decks
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2
Splinter, Radical Rat
11 decks
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3
Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima
5 decks
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4
Satoru Umezawa
5 decks
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5
Goro-Goro and Satoru
4 decks
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6
Heroes in a Half Shell
3 decks
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7
Noctis, Heir Apparent
2 decks
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8
Satoru, the Infiltrator
2 decks
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9
Alela, Cunning Conqueror
1 decks
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10
A-Satoru Umezawa
1 decks
The "good card" funnel
185 brought · 79 playersBrought to game
185
Ever drawn
39
Reached battlefield
27
Still on board at game end
18
Once cast, 67% 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.
≥ -0.5pp
Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=20) , vs 27% when it never left the library (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 +10.4pp; 95% confidence interval -0.5pp to +21.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=27
4%
T1
0%
T2
11%
T3
19%
T4
19%
T5
41%
T6-9
7%
T10+
Median
5
P25
4
· P75
7
· max
15
On curve
33%
(5 / 27 cast on T4)
Cast same turn as drawn
27%
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.