Live Play Data

Untimely Malfunction

· Instant · Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

5164

Decks Running

2178

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=659

10%

15%

56%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 4% (25 / 659 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

5170 brought · 1570 players

Brought to game

5170

Ever drawn

1168

Reached battlefield

659

Still on board at game end

≥ +0.4pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=606) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=3397).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=458).

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 +4.2pp; 95% confidence interval +0.4pp to +8.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1324 instances

5.4%

Library

4.2%

Battlefield

52.2%

Graveyard

8.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kratos, God of War 71 decks
2 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 69 decks
3 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 59 decks
4 Krenko, Mob Boss 57 decks
5 Jaws, Relentless Predator 41 decks
6 Smaug the Magnificent 39 decks
7 Fire Lord Azula 38 decks
8 Ingris Stingerquill 37 decks
9 Kibo, Uktabi Prince 34 decks
10 Queen Marchesa 34 decks

Card text

Untimely Malfunction

Instant

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target. • One or two target creatures can't block this turn.

Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Jarel Threat

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.