Live Play Data

Torment of Hailfire

· Sorcery · Hour of Devastation (HOU)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3081

Decks Running

1307

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

53%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=394

63%

T6-9

24%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 20

Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

3084 brought · 1044 players

Brought to game

3084

Ever drawn

741

Reached battlefield

394

Still on board at game end

101

≥ +5.7pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=357) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1987).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=315).

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 +10.7pp; 95% confidence interval +5.7pp to +15.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

822 instances

4.0%

Library

12.3%

Battlefield

44.8%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Witherbloom, the Balancer 108 decks
2 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 58 decks
3 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 52 decks
4 Zaxara, the Exemplary 42 decks
5 Smaug the Impenetrable 36 decks
6 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 34 decks
7 Silverquill, the Disputant 34 decks
8 Fire Lord Azula 27 decks
9 Yurlok of Scorch Thrash 27 decks
10 Ozai, the Phoenix King 25 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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.