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Torment of Hailfire

· Sorcery · Hour of Devastation (HOU)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

723

Decks Running

378

In Decks

2555

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

195 instances

5.1%

Library

11.3%

Battlefield

41.5%

Graveyard

7.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Witherbloom, the Balancer 41 decks
2 Zaxara, the Exemplary 20 decks
3 Smaug the Impenetrable 15 decks
4 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 14 decks
5 Fire Lord Azula 13 decks
6 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 13 decks
7 Silverquill, the Disputant 13 decks
8 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 10 decks
9 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 8 decks
10 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 8 decks

The "good card" funnel

725 brought · 324 players

Brought to game

725

Ever drawn

178

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.8pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=86) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=473).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=78) — 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 +8.7pp; 95% confidence interval -0.8pp to +18.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=91

73%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 19

Cast same turn as drawn 30%

91 of 100 times cast 91%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.