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Sear

· Instant · Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

106

Decks Running

In Decks

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Sear

Instant

Sear deals 4 damage to target creature or planeswalker.

Lorwyn Eclipsed (ECL) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Lars Grant-West

Final zone distribution

33 instances

3.0%

Library

60.6%

Graveyard

12.1%

Exile

24.2%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 8 decks
2 Fire Lord Azula 3 decks
3 Imodane, the Pyrohammer 2 decks
4 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 1 decks
5 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 1 decks
6 Bre of Clan Stoutarm 1 decks
7 Bruenor Battlehammer 1 decks
8 Gilgamesh, Master-at-Arms 1 decks
9 Homura, Human Ascendant // Homura's Essence 1 decks
10 Kibo, Uktabi Prince 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

106 brought · 30 players

Brought to game

106

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -18.5pp

Players who cast this card win 17% of the time (n=21) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=67).

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 -0.9pp; 95% confidence interval -18.5pp to +16.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=23

17%

61%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 4% (1 / 23 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.