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The Lord of Pain

· Legendary Creature — Human Assassin · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)

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Times Brought

166

Decks Running

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

The Lord of Pain

Legendary Creature — Human Assassin

Menace Your opponents can't gain life. Whenever a player casts their first spell each turn, choose another target player. The Lord of Pain deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to the chosen player.

5 / 5

Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Greg Staples

Final zone distribution

33 instances

51.5%

Battlefield

3.0%

Graveyard

3.0%

Exile

21.2%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

166 brought · 80 players

Brought to game

166

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

12 of 100 times cast 12%

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.