Live Play Data

Withering Torment

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2851

Decks Running

1408

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=448

11%

10%

56%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 9% (32 / 448 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

2859 brought · 1096 players

Brought to game

2859

Ever drawn

704

Reached battlefield

448

Still on board at game end

≥ -5.5pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=400) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=1754).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=229).

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 -1.0pp; 95% confidence interval -5.5pp to +3.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

797 instances

2.5%

Library

3.5%

Battlefield

60.7%

Graveyard

9.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 228 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 78 decks
3 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 54 decks
4 Ghoulcaller Gisa 35 decks
5 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 25 decks
6 Lord of the Nazgûl 19 decks
7 Sauron, the Dark Lord 19 decks
8 Loki, the Deceiver 18 decks
9 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival 16 decks
10 Deadpool, Trading Card 15 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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.