Live Play Data

Ransom Note

· Artifact — Clue · Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

114

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

88%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=21

19%

67%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 5% (1 / 21 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 62%

The "good card" funnel

114 brought · 73 players

Brought to game

114

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 19% 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.

≥ -33.0pp

Players who cast this card win 5% of the time (n=19) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=76).

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 -19.1pp; 95% confidence interval -33.0pp to -5.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

25 instances

16.0%

Battlefield

72.0%

Graveyard

4.0%

Exile

8.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser 14 decks
2 Mirko, Obsessive Theorist 12 decks
3 Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist 10 decks
4 Morska, Undersea Sleuth 10 decks
5 Kaust, Eyes of the Glade 9 decks
6 Squall, SeeD Mercenary 6 decks
7 Breena, the Demagogue 1 decks
8 Duskana, the Rage Mother 1 decks
9 Golbez, Crystal Collector 1 decks
10 Kardur, Doomscourge 1 decks

Card text

Ransom Note

Artifact — Clue

When this artifact enters, surveil 1. {2}

, Sacrifice this artifact: Choose one — • Cloak the top card of your library. • Goad target creature. • Draw a card.

Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) · Rare · Illustrated by Gaboleps

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.