Live Play Data

Painful Truths

· Sorcery · Star Trek Commander (TRC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1052

Decks Running

575

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

51%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=118

13%

55%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 7% (7 / 118 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

1055 brought · 527 players

Brought to game

1055

Ever drawn

230

Reached battlefield

118

Still on board at game end

≥ -9.7pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=102) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=692).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=96).

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 -2.0pp; 95% confidence interval -9.7pp to +5.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

260 instances

3.5%

Library

1.5%

Battlefield

59.2%

Graveyard

6.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Painful Truths

Sorcery

Converge — You draw X cards and lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell.

Star Trek Commander (TRC) · Rare · Illustrated by David Szabo

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.