Live Play Data

Suspended Sentence

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

533

Decks Running

244

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=71

14%

11%

49%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 21% (10 / 71 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

534 brought · 231 players

Brought to game

534

Ever drawn

117

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.3pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=67) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=352).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 11% (n=38).

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 +13.6pp; 95% confidence interval +2.3pp to +24.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

127 instances

0.8%

Library

28.3%

Battlefield

24.4%

Graveyard

15.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 151 decks
2 Obeka, Splitter of Seconds 40 decks
3 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 11 decks
4 The Lord of Pain 9 decks
5 Davros, Dalek Creator 4 decks
6 Fire Lord Zuko 2 decks
7 Prosper, Tome-Bound 2 decks
8 Saruman of Many Colors 2 decks
9 Vial Smasher the Fierce 2 decks
10 Abaddon the Despoiler 1 decks

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

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.