Live Play Data

Withering Torment

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1236

Decks Running

675

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=185

57%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 8% (10 / 185 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

1244 brought · 543 players

Brought to game

1244

Ever drawn

296

Reached battlefield

185

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.1pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=161) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=749).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=99).

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 +3.0pp; 95% confidence interval -4.1pp to +10.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

345 instances

2.0%

Library

4.1%

Battlefield

64.6%

Graveyard

8.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 114 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 28 decks
3 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 16 decks
4 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 14 decks
5 Deadpool, Trading Card 12 decks
6 Loki, the Deceiver 11 decks
7 Alela, Cunning Conqueror 9 decks
8 Captain N'ghathrod 9 decks
9 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 9 decks
10 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 9 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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.