Live Play Data

Riot Control

· Instant · Dragon's Maze (DGM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

838

Decks Running

374

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=138

60%

T6-9

30%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 23

On curve 1% (0 / 138 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

The "good card" funnel

838 brought · 340 players

Brought to game

838

Ever drawn

226

Reached battlefield

138

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=129) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=528).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=77).

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 +10.1pp; 95% confidence interval +1.6pp to +18.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

252 instances

3.2%

Library

4.8%

Battlefield

56.3%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Riot Control

Instant

You gain 1 life for each creature your opponents control. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

Dragon's Maze (DGM) · Common · Illustrated by Slawomir Maniak

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.