Live Play Data

Read the Bones

· Sorcery · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2584

Decks Running

1278

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=322

16%

13%

15%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 23

On curve 23% (52 / 322 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

2587 brought · 1072 players

Brought to game

2587

Ever drawn

529

Reached battlefield

322

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.0pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=297) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=1712).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=181).

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 +1.8pp; 95% confidence interval -3.0pp to +6.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

598 instances

3.5%

Library

1.0%

Battlefield

64.2%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 69 decks
2 Edgar Markov 50 decks
3 Kardur, Doomscourge 50 decks
4 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 38 decks
5 Kaalia of the Vast 35 decks
6 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 30 decks
7 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 26 decks
8 Marrow-Gnawer 21 decks
9 Umbris, Fear Manifest 17 decks
10 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival 16 decks

Card text

Read the Bones

Sorcery

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Common · Illustrated by Lars Grant-West

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.