Live Play Data

Single Combat

· Sorcery · War of the Spark (WAR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

973

Decks Running

420

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

46%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=96

65%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 20

On curve 10% (8 / 96 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

973 brought · 402 players

Brought to game

973

Ever drawn

210

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -9.4pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=84) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=608).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=101).

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 +-0.0pp; 95% confidence interval -9.4pp to +9.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

251 instances

4.0%

Library

4.0%

Battlefield

51.4%

Graveyard

5.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dogmeat, Ever Loyal 79 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 26 decks
3 Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice 18 decks
4 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 15 decks
5 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 13 decks
6 Squall, SeeD Mercenary 11 decks
7 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 10 decks
8 Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale 10 decks
9 Balan, Wandering Knight 8 decks
10 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 8 decks

Card text

Single Combat

Sorcery

Each player chooses a creature or planeswalker they control, then sacrifices the rest. Players can't cast creature or planeswalker spells until the end of your next turn.

War of the Spark (WAR) · Rare · Illustrated by Livia Prima

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.