Live Play Data

Rush of Dread

· Sorcery · Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

363

Decks Running

137

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=33

15%

52%

T6-9

27%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 14

On curve 0% (0 / 33 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

363 brought · 124 players

Brought to game

363

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.9pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=28) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=261).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=29).

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 +11.0pp; 95% confidence interval -5.9pp to +27.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

75 instances

2.7%

Library

2.7%

Battlefield

50.7%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 13 decks
2 Vren, the Relentless 10 decks
3 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 8 decks
4 Astarion, the Decadent 6 decks
5 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 5 decks
6 Shredder, Shadow Master 4 decks
7 Zevlor, Elturel Exile 4 decks
8 Gisa, the Hellraiser 3 decks
9 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 3 decks
10 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 3 decks

Card text

Rush of Dread

Sorcery

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1}

— Target opponent sacrifices half the creatures they control of their choice, rounded up. + {2}

— Target opponent discards half the cards in their hand, rounded up. + {2}

— Target opponent loses half their life, rounded up.

Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) · Rare · Illustrated by Chris Seaman

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.