Live Play Data

Murder

· Instant · Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1602

Decks Running

707

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=217

10%

58%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 17

On curve 5% (8 / 217 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

1608 brought · 577 players

Brought to game

1608

Ever drawn

347

Reached battlefield

217

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.3pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=196) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=1009).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=119).

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 +2.6pp; 95% confidence interval -3.3pp to +8.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

399 instances

1.8%

Library

1.5%

Battlefield

60.4%

Graveyard

9.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gisa and Geralf 40 decks
2 Ezio Auditore da Firenze 25 decks
3 Marrow-Gnawer 19 decks
4 Anowon, the Ruin Thief 14 decks
5 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 13 decks
6 Vren, the Relentless 13 decks
7 Edward Kenway 9 decks
8 Edgar Markov 8 decks
9 The Scarab God 8 decks
10 Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm 7 decks

Card text

Murder

Instant

Destroy target creature.

Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK) · Common · Illustrated by Domenico Cava

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.