Live Play Data

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

930

Decks Running

427

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=124

11%

56%

T6-9

24%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 17

On curve 9% (7 / 124 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

930 brought · 400 players

Brought to game

930

Ever drawn

202

Reached battlefield

124

Still on board at game end

≥ -7.2pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=109) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=621).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=68).

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 +0.4pp; 95% confidence interval -7.2pp to +8.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

222 instances

5.4%

Library

1.8%

Battlefield

55.0%

Graveyard

8.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 41 decks
2 Kaalia of the Vast 30 decks
3 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 29 decks
4 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 23 decks
5 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 22 decks
6 Giada, Font of Hope 16 decks
7 Leinore, Autumn Sovereign 14 decks
8 The Fourth Doctor 11 decks
9 Nahiri, the Lithomancer 9 decks
10 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 6 decks

Card text

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Exile target artifact or enchantment. If you cast this spell during your main phase, you may exile up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Anato Finnstark

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.