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Untimely Malfunction

· Instant · Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK)

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Times Brought

1927

Decks Running

958

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

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

Final zone distribution

352 instances

4.3%

Library

4.8%

Battlefield

46.6%

Graveyard

4.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 45 decks
2 Kratos, God of War 39 decks
3 Smaug the Magnificent 24 decks
4 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 23 decks
5 Deadpool, Trading Card 21 decks
6 Smaug the Impenetrable 21 decks
7 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 21 decks
8 Fire Lord Azula 20 decks
9 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 20 decks
10 Queen Marchesa 17 decks

The "good card" funnel

1927 brought · 763 players

Brought to game

1927

Ever drawn

330

Reached battlefield

166

Still on board at game end

≥ -0.8pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=141) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=1148).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=124).

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 +3.5pp; 95% confidence interval -0.8pp to +7.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=166

13%

16%

52%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 11

On curve 7% (8 / 166 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.