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The Deck of Many Things

· Legendary Artifact · Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (AFR)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

161

Decks Running

104

In Decks

568

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

The Deck of Many Things

Legendary Artifact

: Roll a d20 and subtract the number of cards in your hand. If the result is 0 or less, discard your hand. 1—9 | Return a card at random from your graveyard to your hand. 10—19 | Draw two cards. 20 | Put a creature card from any graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. When that creature dies, its owner loses the game.

Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (AFR) · Mythic · Illustrated by Volkan Baǵa

Final zone distribution

43 instances

7.0%

Library

46.5%

Battlefield

23.3%

Graveyard

2.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

161 brought · 97 players

Brought to game

161

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 77% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -11.2pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=22) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=97).

Observed gap +7.7pp; 95% confidence interval -11.2pp to +26.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=26

15%

58%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7.5 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 23% (1 / 26 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

26 of 100 times cast 26%

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.