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Torment of Hailfire

· Sorcery · Hour of Devastation (HOU)

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Times Brought

979

Decks Running

499

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

218 instances

2.3%

Library

14.2%

Battlefield

41.3%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Witherbloom, the Balancer 40 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 32 decks
3 Zaxara, the Exemplary 29 decks
4 Silverquill, the Disputant 19 decks
5 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 18 decks
6 Smaug the Impenetrable 12 decks
7 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 11 decks
8 Yurlok of Scorch Thrash 11 decks
9 Fire Lord Azula 9 decks
10 Prosper, Tome-Bound 9 decks

The "good card" funnel

979 brought · 418 players

Brought to game

979

Ever drawn

185

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.3pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=82) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=564).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=72).

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 +2.4pp; 95% confidence interval -3.3pp to +8.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=98

69%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 19

Cast same turn as drawn 27%

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.