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Sigil of the Empty Throne

{3} {W} {W} · Enchantment · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
203
Decks Running
117
In Decks
1014
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format

Final zone distribution

65 instances
4.6%
Library
41.5%
Battlefield
20.0%
Graveyard
9.2%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

206 brought · 111 players
Brought to game
206
Ever drawn
60
Reached battlefield
37
Still on board at game end
27

Once cast, 73% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -7.2pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=33) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=123).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=23) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +8.8pp; 95% confidence interval -7.2pp to +24.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=37
0%
T1
0%
T2
3%
T3
8%
T4
14%
T5
51%
T6-9
24%
T10+
Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14
On curve 24% (5 / 37 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 44%
37 of 100 times cast 37%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 630,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.