Live Play Data

Overlord of the Balemurk

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

254

Decks Running

125

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=46

11%

22%

48%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 41% (10 / 46 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 46%

The "good card" funnel

254 brought · 123 players

Brought to game

254

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ +14.6pp

Players who cast this card win 47% of the time (n=45) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=154).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 5% (n=15).

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 +29.2pp; 95% confidence interval +14.6pp to +43.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

88 instances

2.3%

Library

28.4%

Battlefield

37.5%

Graveyard

14.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

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

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.