Live Play Data

Rakdos, Lord of Riots

· Legendary Creature — Demon · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

681

Decks Running

314

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=174

10%

18%

45%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 30% (31 / 174 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

681 brought · 283 players

Brought to game

681

Ever drawn

161

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ -1.0pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=80) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=427).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=60).

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 +9.1pp; 95% confidence interval -1.0pp to +19.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

174 instances

4.0%

Library

26.4%

Battlefield

25.9%

Graveyard

6.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 127 decks
2 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 56 decks
3 Raphael, Fiendish Savior 23 decks
4 Kaalia of the Vast 18 decks
5 Abaddon the Despoiler 14 decks
6 The Lord of Pain 13 decks
7 Ares, God of War 9 decks
8 Gev, Scaled Scorch 6 decks
9 Ingris Stingerquill 4 decks
10 Kardur, Doomscourge 3 decks

Card text

Rakdos, Lord of Riots

Legendary Creature — Demon

You can't cast Rakdos unless an opponent lost life this turn. Flying, trample Creature spells you cast cost {1}

less to cast for each 1 life your opponents have lost this turn.

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Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Yigit Koroglu

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.