Live Play Data

Torment of Hailfire

· Sorcery · Hour of Devastation (HOU)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1132

Decks Running

554

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=153

10%

69%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 19

Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

1134 brought · 464 players

Brought to game

1134

Ever drawn

282

Reached battlefield

153

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=139) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=707).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=110).

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 +9.8pp; 95% confidence interval +2.0pp to +17.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

311 instances

4.8%

Library

10.6%

Battlefield

46.3%

Graveyard

6.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Witherbloom, the Balancer 54 decks
2 Zaxara, the Exemplary 25 decks
3 Smaug the Impenetrable 23 decks
4 Fire Lord Azula 21 decks
5 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 21 decks
6 Silverquill, the Disputant 19 decks
7 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 18 decks
8 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 12 decks
9 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 11 decks
10 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 10 decks

Card text

Torment of Hailfire

Sorcery

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Hour of Devastation (HOU) · Rare · Illustrated by Grzegorz Rutkowski

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.