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Theater of Horrors

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

178

Decks Running

100

In Decks

678

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Theater of Horrors

Enchantment

At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. During your turn, if an opponent lost life this turn, you may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled with this enchantment. {3}

: This enchantment deals 1 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Daarken

Final zone distribution

50 instances

4.0%

Library

36.0%

Battlefield

22.0%

Graveyard

8.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 47 decks
2 Kardur, Doomscourge 15 decks
3 Prosper, Tome-Bound 7 decks
4 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 5 decks
5 The Lord of Pain 5 decks
6 Abaddon the Despoiler 2 decks
7 Gev, Scaled Scorch 2 decks
8 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 2 decks
9 Mogis, God of Slaughter 2 decks
10 Raphael, Fiendish Savior 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

179 brought · 93 players

Brought to game

179

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ -12.6pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=19) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=109).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=20) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +7.6pp; 95% confidence interval -12.6pp to +27.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=24

21%

17%

29%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 29% (5 / 24 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

24 of 100 times cast 24%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

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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.