Live Play Data

Rakdos, Lord of Riots

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

472

Decks Running

234

Median Cast Turn

5.5

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=132

10%

19%

18%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 32% (25 / 132 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

472 brought · 211 players

Brought to game

472

Ever drawn

119

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ -0.2pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=60) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=300).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=46).

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 +11.9pp; 95% confidence interval -0.2pp to +24.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

127 instances

4.7%

Library

27.6%

Battlefield

23.6%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 101 decks
2 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 42 decks
3 Raphael, Fiendish Savior 16 decks
4 Kaalia of the Vast 13 decks
5 Abaddon the Despoiler 12 decks
6 The Lord of Pain 10 decks
7 Ares, God of War 7 decks
8 Gev, Scaled Scorch 4 decks
9 Mogis, God of Slaughter 3 decks
10 Kaervek the Merciless 2 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.