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Trouble in Pairs

· Enchantment · Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)

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Times Brought

1389

Decks Running

693

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

Trouble in Pairs

Enchantment

If an opponent would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead. Whenever an opponent attacks you with two or more creatures, draws their second card each turn, or casts their second spell each turn, you draw a card.

Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) · Rare · Illustrated by Fay Dalton

Final zone distribution

268 instances

2.6%

Library

32.8%

Battlefield

14.2%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Giada, Font of Hope 42 decks
2 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 28 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 18 decks
4 Ms. Bumbleflower 17 decks
5 Whtz, the Bibliophile 14 decks
6 Edgar Markov 13 decks
7 Hope Estheim 12 decks
8 Kwia Vigorbloom 12 decks
9 Queen Marchesa 12 decks
10 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 12 decks

The "good card" funnel

1389 brought · 578 players

Brought to game

1389

Ever drawn

253

Reached battlefield

118

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 75% 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.

≥ -5.1pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=88) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=845).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=105).

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 +0.4pp; 95% confidence interval -5.1pp to +5.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=118

13%

23%

47%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 19% (15 / 118 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.