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Suspended Sentence

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

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Times Brought

262

Decks Running

143

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

52 instances

30.8%

Battlefield

26.9%

Graveyard

26.9%

Exile

15.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

263 brought · 138 players

Brought to game

263

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -7.0pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=29) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=147).

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 +3.1pp; 95% confidence interval -7.0pp to +13.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=36

17%

61%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 11% (1 / 36 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 17%

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.