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Murder

· Instant · Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK)

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Times Brought

1200

Decks Running

543

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.

Card text

Murder

Instant

Destroy target creature.

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

Final zone distribution

269 instances

1.9%

Library

3.3%

Battlefield

62.1%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gisa and Geralf 34 decks
2 Ezio Auditore da Firenze 19 decks
3 Marrow-Gnawer 16 decks
4 Anowon, the Ruin Thief 15 decks
5 Edgar Markov 10 decks
6 Karumonix, the Rat King 10 decks
7 Vren, the Relentless 8 decks
8 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 7 decks
9 Edward Kenway 6 decks
10 Kaalia of the Vast 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

1200 brought · 472 players

Brought to game

1200

Ever drawn

239

Reached battlefield

165

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.0pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=128) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=694).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=53).

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 +0.7pp; 95% confidence interval -4.0pp to +5.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=165

12%

15%

54%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 5% (8 / 165 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

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.