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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

478

Decks Running

278

In Decks

2322

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

127 instances

3.9%

Library

0.8%

Battlefield

66.1%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 11 decks
2 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 11 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 10 decks
4 Kardur, Doomscourge 10 decks
5 Marrow-Gnawer 7 decks
6 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival 7 decks
7 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 5 decks
8 Edgar Markov 5 decks
9 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 5 decks
10 Teysa Karlov 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

481 brought · 249 players

Brought to game

481

Ever drawn

114

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.5pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=69) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=316).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=38) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +4.6pp; 95% confidence interval -5.5pp to +14.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=71

18%

20%

42%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 23% (13 / 71 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

71 of 100 times cast 71%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 630,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.