Temporal Extortion card art
Live Play Data

Temporal Extortion

{B} {B} {B} {B} · Sorcery · Planar Chaos (PLC)
0%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
186
Decks Running
79
Median Cast Turn
7
Drawn → Played
74%
Format

First-cast turn

n=31
0%
T1
3%
T2
3%
T3
3%
T4
19%
T5
55%
T6-9
16%
T10+
Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 17
On curve 10% (1 / 31 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

The "good card" funnel

186 brought · 79 players
Brought to game
186
Ever drawn
42
Reached battlefield
31
Still on board at game end
1
≥ -5.0pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=25) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=127).

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 +15.8pp; 95% confidence interval -5.0pp to +36.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

47 instances
6.4%
Library
2.1%
Battlefield
57.4%
Graveyard
14.9%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Temporal Extortion card

Temporal Extortion

{B} {B} {B} {B}
Sorcery
When you cast this spell, any player may pay half their life, rounded up. If a player does, counter Temporal Extortion. Take an extra turn after this one.
Planar Chaos (PLC) · Rare · Illustrated by Steven Belledin

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.