Live Play Data

Mandate of Abaddon

· Sorcery · Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

426

Decks Running

208

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=59

10%

63%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 20

On curve 5% (3 / 59 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

426 brought · 198 players

Brought to game

426

Ever drawn

101

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.6pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=52) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=264).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=40).

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 +6.9pp; 95% confidence interval -5.6pp to +19.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

105 instances

3.8%

Library

4.8%

Battlefield

60.0%

Graveyard

3.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Abaddon the Despoiler 70 decks
2 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 18 decks
3 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave 16 decks
4 Umbris, Fear Manifest 9 decks
5 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 9 decks
6 Yargle and Multani 8 decks
7 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival 7 decks
8 Indominus Rex, Alpha 6 decks
9 Kresh the Bloodbraided 6 decks
10 Ygra, Eater of All 5 decks

Card text

Mandate of Abaddon

Sorcery

Choose target creature you control. Destroy all creatures with power less than that creature's power.

Warhammer 40,000 Commander (40K) · Rare · Illustrated by Games Workshop

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.