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

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Times Brought

303

Decks Running

173

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.

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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

Final zone distribution

57 instances

3.5%

Library

3.5%

Battlefield

59.6%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 31 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 18 decks
3 Prosper, Tome-Bound 17 decks
4 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 14 decks
5 Kratos, God of War 7 decks
6 Krenko, Mob Boss 6 decks
7 Fire Lord Zuko 5 decks
8 Krark, the Thumbless 5 decks
9 Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald 3 decks
10 General Kreat, the Boltbringer 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

303 brought · 158 players

Brought to game

303

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.8pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=29) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=186).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=17) — 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 +7.4pp; 95% confidence interval -1.8pp to +16.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=35

14%

20%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 17% (5 / 35 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

35 of 100 times cast 35%

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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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.