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Vial Smasher the Fierce

· Legendary Creature — Goblin Berserker · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

198

Decks Running

112

In Decks

748

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Vial Smasher the Fierce

Legendary Creature — Goblin Berserker

Whenever you cast your first spell each turn, choose an opponent at random. Vial Smasher deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to that player or a planeswalker that player controls. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

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Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Deruchenko Alexander

Final zone distribution

65 instances

1.5%

Library

32.3%

Battlefield

30.8%

Graveyard

7.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 64 decks
2 The Lord of Pain 14 decks
3 Vial Smasher the Fierce 10 decks
4 Kaervek the Merciless 3 decks
5 Obosh, the Preypiercer 3 decks
6 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator 2 decks
7 Mogis, God of Slaughter 2 decks
8 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 2 decks
9 Tokka & Rahzar, Terrible Twos 2 decks
10 Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

199 brought · 112 players

Brought to game

199

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 41% 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.

≥ -1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 35% of the time (n=31) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=131).

Observed gap +15.5pp; 95% confidence interval -1.6pp to +32.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=32

22%

13%

41%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 3 · P75 9 · max 17

On curve 28% (7 / 32 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

32 of 100 times cast 32%

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.