Live Play Data

Praetor's Grasp

· Sorcery · New Phyrexia (NPH)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

875

Decks Running

393

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

49%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=106

11%

15%

21%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 20% (12 / 106 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

875 brought · 344 players

Brought to game

875

Ever drawn

218

Reached battlefield

106

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.8pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=96) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=492).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 42% (n=102).

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 +7.6pp; 95% confidence interval -1.8pp to +17.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

266 instances

4.1%

Library

4.1%

Battlefield

40.2%

Graveyard

23.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 29 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 23 decks
3 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 16 decks
4 Sen Triplets 15 decks
5 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 10 decks
6 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled 9 decks
7 Prosper, Tome-Bound 9 decks
8 Don Andres, the Renegade 7 decks
9 The Madcap Jester 7 decks
10 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 7 decks

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

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.