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Praetor's Grasp

· Sorcery · New Phyrexia (NPH)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

231

Decks Running

112

In Decks

1025

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Praetor's Grasp

Sorcery

Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it face down. Then that player shuffles. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled.

New Phyrexia (NPH) · Rare · Illustrated by Steve Argyle

Final zone distribution

69 instances

10.1%

Library

2.9%

Battlefield

43.5%

Graveyard

14.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 10 decks
2 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 7 decks
3 Sen Triplets 7 decks
4 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 7 decks
5 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 5 decks
6 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 5 decks
7 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled 4 decks
8 Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter 4 decks
9 Black Cat, Cunning Thief 2 decks
10 Captain N'ghathrod 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

231 brought · 111 players

Brought to game

231

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -11.0pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=24) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=137).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 47% (n=29) — 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 +6.6pp; 95% confidence interval -11.0pp to +24.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=26

12%

27%

23%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 27% (2 / 26 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

26 of 100 times cast 26%

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

Frequently Asked

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.