Live Play Data

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1396

Decks Running

682

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=190

13%

14%

47%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 17% (25 / 190 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

1397 brought · 610 players

Brought to game

1397

Ever drawn

309

Reached battlefield

190

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.5pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=172) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=881).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=107).

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 +4.3pp; 95% confidence interval -2.5pp to +11.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

366 instances

2.5%

Library

4.4%

Battlefield

60.1%

Graveyard

12.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 123 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 61 decks
3 Vivi Ornitier 52 decks
4 Prosper, Tome-Bound 35 decks
5 Kratos, God of War 25 decks
6 Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald 23 decks
7 Fire Lord Zuko 17 decks
8 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 14 decks
9 Ingris Stingerquill 13 decks
10 Krenko, Mob Boss 13 decks

Card text

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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 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.