Live Play Data

Valgavoth, Terror Eater

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

743

Decks Running

300

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=135

16%

10%

59%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 89% (18 / 135 cast on T9) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

743 brought · 282 players

Brought to game

743

Ever drawn

195

Reached battlefield

126

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ -1.9pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=117) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=457).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=66).

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 +6.7pp; 95% confidence interval -1.9pp to +15.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

224 instances

1.8%

Library

29.5%

Battlefield

30.4%

Graveyard

14.7%

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.