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Single Combat

· Sorcery · War of the Spark (WAR)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

257

Decks Running

127

In Decks

1052

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

68 instances

2.9%

Library

1.5%

Battlefield

54.4%

Graveyard

8.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dogmeat, Ever Loyal 21 decks
2 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 10 decks
3 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary 6 decks
4 Balan, Wandering Knight 4 decks
5 Captain America, First Avenger 4 decks
6 Squall, SeeD Mercenary 4 decks
7 Narset, Enlightened Master 3 decks
8 Ratonhnhaké꞉ton 3 decks
9 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 2 decks
10 Bruna, Light of Alabaster 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

257 brought · 120 players

Brought to game

257

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -14.0pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=24) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=161).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=25) — 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 +3.9pp; 95% confidence interval -14.0pp to +21.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=25

16%

48%

T6-9

32%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 13

On curve 20% (4 / 25 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

25 of 100 times cast 25%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.