Live Play Data

Theater of Horrors

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

492

Decks Running

223

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=65

12%

17%

37%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 25% (8 / 65 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

The "good card" funnel

493 brought · 199 players

Brought to game

493

Ever drawn

111

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 69% 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.

≥ -8.9pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=57) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=304).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=44).

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 +1.5pp; 95% confidence interval -8.9pp to +11.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

127 instances

4.7%

Library

35.4%

Battlefield

26.0%

Graveyard

8.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 101 decks
2 Kardur, Doomscourge 32 decks
3 Prosper, Tome-Bound 14 decks
4 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 13 decks
5 Gev, Scaled Scorch 7 decks
6 The Lord of Pain 6 decks
7 Jegantha, the Wellspring 5 decks
8 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 4 decks
9 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 4 decks
10 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 3 decks

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

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.