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Suspended Sentence

· Instant · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

180

Decks Running

101

In Decks

589

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Suspended Sentence

Instant

Destroy target creature an opponent controls. That player loses 3 life. Exile Suspended Sentence with three time counters on it. Suspend 3— {1}

(Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {1}

and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Rare · Illustrated by L.A. Draws

Final zone distribution

45 instances

26.7%

Battlefield

22.2%

Graveyard

22.2%

Exile

28.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

181 brought · 99 players

Brought to game

181

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +3.8pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=27) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=120).

Observed gap +22.4pp; 95% confidence interval +3.8pp to +41.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=28

11%

21%

43%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 39% (6 / 28 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

28 of 100 times cast 28%

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