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Valgavoth, Terror Eater

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

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Times Brought

657

Decks Running

295

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

165 instances

3.0%

Library

40.6%

Battlefield

21.8%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

657 brought · 268 players

Brought to game

657

Ever drawn

142

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 78% 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.

≥ +10.4pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=70) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=376).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=36).

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 +15.8pp; 95% confidence interval +10.4pp to +21.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=102

11%

14%

51%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 84% (6 / 102 cast on T9) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

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.