Live Play Data

Vial Smasher the Fierce

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

398

Decks Running

194

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

66%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=97

20%

24%

10%

11%

25%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 17

On curve 46% (23 / 97 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

399 brought · 181 players

Brought to game

399

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 37% 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.

≥ -3.8pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=52) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=266).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=25).

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 +9.4pp; 95% confidence interval -3.8pp to +22.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

89 instances

3.4%

Library

22.5%

Battlefield

42.7%

Graveyard

10.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 123 decks
2 The Lord of Pain 21 decks
3 Obosh, the Preypiercer 6 decks
4 Kaervek the Merciless 4 decks
5 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 3 decks
6 Mogis, God of Slaughter 3 decks
7 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 3 decks
8 Cormela, Glamour Thief 2 decks
9 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 2 decks
10 Saruman, the White Hand 2 decks

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

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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.