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Untimely Malfunction

· Instant · Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK)

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Times Brought

787

Decks Running

411

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

147 instances

2.7%

Library

4.1%

Battlefield

46.3%

Graveyard

3.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 20 decks
2 Kratos, God of War 14 decks
3 Deadpool, Trading Card 10 decks
4 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 10 decks
5 Magda, Brazen Outlaw 10 decks
6 Queen Marchesa 10 decks
7 Jaws, Relentless Predator 9 decks
8 Smaug the Impenetrable 8 decks
9 Fire Lord Azula 7 decks
10 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

787 brought · 346 players

Brought to game

787

Ever drawn

136

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.5pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=58) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=508).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=58) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +4.1pp; 95% confidence interval -2.5pp to +10.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=65

14%

58%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 9% (4 / 65 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

65 of 100 times cast 65%

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Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.