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Spectacular Showdown

· Sorcery · Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

220

Decks Running

113

In Decks

845

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Spectacular Showdown

Sorcery

Put a double strike counter on target creature, then goad each creature that had a double strike counter put on it this way. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.) Overload {4}

(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) · Rare · Illustrated by Aniekan Udofia

Final zone distribution

56 instances

1.8%

Library

8.9%

Battlefield

57.1%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser 13 decks
2 Firkraag, Cunning Instigator 8 decks
3 Kratos, God of War 7 decks
4 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos 6 decks
5 Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer 6 decks
6 Kardur, Doomscourge 5 decks
7 Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant 4 decks
8 Me, the Immortal 4 decks
9 Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer 4 decks
10 Avatar Roku, Firebender 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

220 brought · 113 players

Brought to game

220

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -9.1pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=34) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=151).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=15) — 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 +7.8pp; 95% confidence interval -9.1pp to +24.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=36

22%

61%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 12

Cast same turn as drawn 17%

36 of 100 times cast 36%

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

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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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.