Live Play Data

Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

· Legendary Creature — Elder Demon · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

441

Decks Running

178

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=547

24%

33%

13%

18%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 5 · max 13

On curve 66% (182 / 547 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

441 brought · 165 players

Brought to game

441

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 39% 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.

≥ -11.6pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=57) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=294).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=26).

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 +0.1pp; 95% confidence interval -11.6pp to +11.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

101 instances

3.0%

Library

22.8%

Battlefield

33.7%

Graveyard

13.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Deadpool, Trading Card 32 decks
2 The Lord of Pain 28 decks
3 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 16 decks
4 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 15 decks
5 Kaalia of the Vast 10 decks
6 Yurlok of Scorch Thrash 8 decks
7 Mogis, God of Slaughter 7 decks
8 Raphael, Fiendish Savior 7 decks
9 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin 6 decks
10 Tokka & Rahzar, Terrible Twos 5 decks

Card text

Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Legendary Creature — Elder Demon

Flying Ward—Pay 2 life. Whenever an opponent loses life for the first time during each of their turns, put a +1/+1 counter on Valgavoth and draw a card.

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Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Chris Cold

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.