Live Play Data

Professor Onyx

· Legendary Planeswalker — Liliana · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

591

Decks Running

282

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

60%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=90

11%

20%

48%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 57% (17 / 90 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

591 brought · 262 players

Brought to game

591

Ever drawn

149

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 67% 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.

≥ +12.1pp

Players who cast this card win 48% of the time (n=79) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=351).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=56).

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 +23.0pp; 95% confidence interval +12.1pp to +33.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

178 instances

1.1%

Library

33.7%

Battlefield

27.5%

Graveyard

8.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Winter, Cynical Opportunist 23 decks
2 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 20 decks
3 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 15 decks
4 Silverquill, the Disputant 15 decks
5 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 13 decks
6 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 11 decks
7 Fire Lord Azula 9 decks
8 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer 8 decks
9 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 8 decks
10 Carth the Lion 7 decks

Card text

Professor Onyx

Legendary Planeswalker — Liliana

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. +1: You lose 1 life. Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. −3: Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls. −8: Each opponent may discard a card. If they don't, they lose 3 life. Repeat this process six more times.

Loyalty 5

Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Kieran Yanner

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.