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Rakdos, Lord of Riots

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

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Times Brought

399

Decks Running

199

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

87 instances

4.6%

Library

34.5%

Battlefield

13.8%

Graveyard

4.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 89 decks
2 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 34 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 12 decks
4 Abaddon the Despoiler 8 decks
5 Ares, God of War 7 decks
6 Raphael, Fiendish Savior 7 decks
7 The Lord of Pain 7 decks
8 Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch 3 decks
9 Kaervek the Merciless 3 decks
10 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

399 brought · 180 players

Brought to game

399

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 60% 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.

≥ +1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=34) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=210).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=20).

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 +1.7pp to +19.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=87

18%

20%

45%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 30% (16 / 87 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

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.