Live Play Data

Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

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

Live Inclusion

Buy on TCGplayer

Times Brought

569

Decks Running

227

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=697

23%

32%

15%

19%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 5 · max 13

On curve 65% (222 / 697 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

569 brought · 208 players

Brought to game

569

Ever drawn

126

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 40% 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.

≥ -6.8pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=80) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=381).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=35).

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 +3.4pp; 95% confidence interval -6.8pp to +13.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

139 instances

2.2%

Library

24.5%

Battlefield

33.1%

Graveyard

11.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Lord of Pain 37 decks
2 Deadpool, Trading Card 35 decks
3 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 23 decks
4 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 21 decks
5 Kaalia of the Vast 15 decks
6 Yurlok of Scorch Thrash 11 decks
7 Raphael, Fiendish Savior 8 decks
8 Mogis, God of Slaughter 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.

4 / 4

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 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.