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· Sorcery · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

255

Decks Running

169

In Decks

1281

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

67 instances

9.0%

Battlefield

55.2%

Graveyard

14.9%

Exile

20.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 33 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 21 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 10 decks
4 Prosper, Tome-Bound 9 decks
5 Fire Lord Zuko 8 decks
6 Kratos, God of War 7 decks
7 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 4 decks
8 Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald 3 decks
9 Gev, Scaled Scorch 3 decks
10 Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

256 brought · 153 players

Brought to game

256

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.3pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=36) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=172).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=21) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +9.5pp; 95% confidence interval -6.3pp to +25.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=38

21%

11%

50%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 16% (3 / 38 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 46%

38 of 100 times cast 38%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 630,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.