Live Play Data

Persistent Constrictor

· Creature — Zombie Snake · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

381

Decks Running

195

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=55

18%

65%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 27% (10 / 55 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

The "good card" funnel

382 brought · 175 players

Brought to game

382

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 49% 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.

≥ -10.8pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=52) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=259).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=29).

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 +1.0pp; 95% confidence interval -10.8pp to +12.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

102 instances

3.9%

Library

26.5%

Battlefield

34.3%

Graveyard

11.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 112 decks
2 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 16 decks
3 Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons 10 decks
4 The Lord of Pain 10 decks
5 The Reaper, King No More 9 decks
6 Aphelia, Viper Whisperer 4 decks
7 Gisa, the Hellraiser 4 decks
8 Volrath, the Shapestealer 4 decks
9 Gorma, the Gullet 3 decks
10 Massacre Girl, Known Killer 3 decks

Card text

Persistent Constrictor

Creature — Zombie Snake

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, they lose 1 life and you put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature they control. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

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Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Steve Ellis

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.