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Times Brought

584

Decks Running

288

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.

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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

Final zone distribution

121 instances

5.0%

Library

5.8%

Battlefield

43.8%

Graveyard

5.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 36 decks
2 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 27 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 25 decks
4 Aminatou, Veil Piercer 18 decks
5 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 15 decks
6 Leinore, Autumn Sovereign 10 decks
7 Giada, Font of Hope 8 decks
8 Ranar the Ever-Watchful 6 decks
9 The Fourth Doctor 6 decks
10 Wyleth, Soul of Steel 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

585 brought · 270 players

Brought to game

585

Ever drawn

117

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.3pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=52) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=330).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=38).

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 +9.4pp; 95% confidence interval +2.3pp to +16.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=61

18%

56%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 21

On curve 8% (4 / 61 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

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.