Live Play Data

Withering Torment

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

5616

Decks Running

2464

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=851

13%

60%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 18

On curve 3% (27 / 851 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

5624 brought · 1833 players

Brought to game

5624

Ever drawn

1340

Reached battlefield

851

Still on board at game end

≥ -1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=763) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=3545).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=442).

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 +1.5pp; 95% confidence interval -1.7pp to +4.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1506 instances

2.5%

Library

3.1%

Battlefield

61.4%

Graveyard

8.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 334 decks
2 Ghoulcaller Gisa 190 decks
3 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 115 decks
4 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 78 decks
5 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 44 decks
6 Ingris Stingerquill 32 decks
7 Sauron, the Dark Lord 29 decks
8 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 26 decks
9 Loki, the Deceiver 25 decks
10 Lord of the Nazgûl 25 decks

Card text

Withering Torment

Instant

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by John Tyler Christopher

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.