Live Play Data

Valgavoth, Terror Eater

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1161

Decks Running

468

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=211

16%

10%

58%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 88% (26 / 211 cast on T9) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

1161 brought · 425 players

Brought to game

1161

Ever drawn

312

Reached battlefield

196

Still on board at game end

104

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ +4.5pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=174) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=685).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=111).

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 +11.8pp; 95% confidence interval +4.5pp to +19.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

356 instances

3.1%

Library

29.2%

Battlefield

29.2%

Graveyard

13.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Valgavoth, Terror Eater

Legendary Creature — Elder Demon

Flying, lifelink Ward—Sacrifice three nonland permanents. If a card you didn't control would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead. During your turn, you may play cards exiled with Valgavoth. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.

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Duskmourn: House of Horror (DSK) · Mythic · Illustrated by Antonio José Manzanedo

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.