Live Play Data

Light Up the Stage

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1038

Decks Running

544

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=131

16%

18%

46%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 14% (11 / 131 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

1039 brought · 496 players

Brought to game

1039

Ever drawn

233

Reached battlefield

131

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=117) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=658).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=93).

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 +7.2pp; 95% confidence interval -1.2pp to +15.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

277 instances

3.2%

Library

4.7%

Battlefield

55.6%

Graveyard

12.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 101 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 52 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 42 decks
4 Prosper, Tome-Bound 25 decks
5 Kratos, God of War 20 decks
6 Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald 17 decks
7 Fire Lord Zuko 14 decks
8 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 12 decks
9 Krenko, Mob Boss 11 decks
10 Daredevil, Fearless Fighter 7 decks

Card text

Light Up the Stage

Sorcery

Spectacle

(You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.) Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.

Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Dmitry Burmak

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.