Live Play Data

Praetor's Grasp

· Sorcery · New Phyrexia (NPH)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

450

Decks Running

217

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

50%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=58

10%

16%

22%

29%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 22% (5 / 58 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

450 brought · 204 players

Brought to game

450

Ever drawn

115

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.3pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=54) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=253).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 42% (n=51).

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 +10.4pp; 95% confidence interval -2.3pp to +23.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

131 instances

5.3%

Library

5.3%

Battlefield

42.0%

Graveyard

19.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 19 decks
2 Sen Triplets 12 decks
3 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 12 decks
4 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 10 decks
5 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 8 decks
6 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 7 decks
7 Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter 5 decks
8 Talion, the Kindly Lord 5 decks
9 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled 4 decks
10 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 4 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.