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Valgavoth, Terror Eater

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

400

Decks Running

177

In Decks

1186

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

136 instances

2.2%

Library

24.3%

Battlefield

32.4%

Graveyard

14.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

400 brought · 166 players

Brought to game

400

Ever drawn

107

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 46% 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.

≥ -2.8pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=64) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=236).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=38) — 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 +8.8pp; 95% confidence interval -2.8pp to +20.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=69

13%

12%

64%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 91% (11 / 69 cast on T9) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

69 of 100 times cast 69%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

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.