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Karlach, Fury of Avernus

· Legendary Creature — Tiefling Barbarian · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

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Times Brought

814

Decks Running

391

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

Karlach, Fury of Avernus

Legendary Creature — Tiefling Barbarian

Whenever you attack, if it's the first combat phase of the turn, untap all attacking creatures. They gain first strike until end of turn. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

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Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Mythic · Illustrated by Billy Christian

Final zone distribution

154 instances

1.3%

Library

40.9%

Battlefield

13.0%

Graveyard

5.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 29 decks
2 Kratos, God of War 27 decks
3 Lightning, Army of One 16 decks
4 Knuckles the Echidna 12 decks
5 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 11 decks
6 Bruce Banner // The Incredible Hulk 9 decks
7 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 9 decks
8 Ingris Stingerquill 9 decks
9 Xenagos, God of Revels 8 decks
10 Raphael, Fiendish Savior 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

814 brought · 344 players

Brought to game

814

Ever drawn

149

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 74% 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.

≥ +1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=69) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=490).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=46).

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 +7.5pp; 95% confidence interval +1.4pp to +13.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=121

21%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 51% (25 / 121 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.