Live Play Data

Ruinous Ultimatum

· Sorcery · Star Trek Commander (TRC)

16%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2803

Decks Running

1125

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=336

71%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 48% (85 / 336 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

2804 brought · 983 players

Brought to game

2804

Ever drawn

607

Reached battlefield

336

Still on board at game end

≥ +11.0pp

Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=304) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1799).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=233).

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 +16.5pp; 95% confidence interval +11.0pp to +22.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

713 instances

3.5%

Library

8.6%

Battlefield

48.2%

Graveyard

6.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 159 decks
2 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 131 decks
3 Mr. House, President and CEO 111 decks
4 Kaalia of the Vast 76 decks
5 Edgar Markov 64 decks
6 Queen Marchesa 59 decks
7 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 53 decks
8 The Ur-Dragon 31 decks
9 Jodah, Archmage Eternal 26 decks
10 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 23 decks

Card text

Ruinous Ultimatum

Sorcery

Destroy all nonland permanents your opponents control.

Star Trek Commander (TRC) · Rare · Illustrated by Carlos Dattoli

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.