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

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Times Brought

775

Decks Running

437

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

150 instances

2.7%

Library

4.0%

Battlefield

54.7%

Graveyard

8.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 87 decks
2 Vivi Ornitier 43 decks
3 Prosper, Tome-Bound 33 decks
4 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 31 decks
5 Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald 20 decks
6 Fire Lord Zuko 16 decks
7 Kratos, God of War 14 decks
8 Krenko, Mob Boss 11 decks
9 Krark, the Thumbless 7 decks
10 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

775 brought · 405 players

Brought to game

775

Ever drawn

143

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.0pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=67) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=460).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 35% (n=47).

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 +0.4pp; 95% confidence interval -6.0pp to +6.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=84

10%

17%

18%

40%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 13% (8 / 84 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

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.