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Overlord of the Balemurk

· Enchantment Creature — Avatar Horror · Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

184

Decks Running

In Decks

656

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Overlord of the Balemurk

Enchantment Creature — Avatar Horror

Impending 5— {1}

(If you cast this spell for its impending cost, it enters with five time counters and isn't a creature until the last is removed. At the beginning of your end step, remove a time counter from it.) Whenever this permanent enters or attacks, mill four cards, then you may return a non-Avatar creature card or a planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.

5 / 5

Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK) · Mythic · Illustrated by Babs Webb

Final zone distribution

62 instances

3.2%

Library

30.6%

Battlefield

40.3%

Graveyard

12.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

184 brought · 86 players

Brought to game

184

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 56% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +13.4pp

Players who cast this card win 50% of the time (n=34) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=114).

Observed gap +30.5pp; 95% confidence interval +13.4pp to +47.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=34

12%

21%

56%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 38% (7 / 34 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

34 of 100 times cast 34%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.