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Murder

· Instant · Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK)

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Times Brought

479

Decks Running

229

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

92 instances

3.3%

Library

6.5%

Battlefield

53.3%

Graveyard

9.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gisa and Geralf 15 decks
2 Ezio Auditore da Firenze 10 decks
3 Marrow-Gnawer 8 decks
4 Edgar Markov 6 decks
5 Karumonix, the Rat King 6 decks
6 Edward Kenway 4 decks
7 Satoru Umezawa 4 decks
8 Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad 3 decks
9 Anowon, the Ruin Thief 3 decks
10 Ezio, Blade of Vengeance 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

479 brought · 214 players

Brought to game

479

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -9.7pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=50) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=293).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=20) — 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 -2.4pp; 95% confidence interval -9.7pp to +4.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=58

17%

16%

55%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 5% (3 / 58 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

58 of 100 times cast 57%

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

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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.