Live Play Data

Withering Torment

· Instant · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

4150

Decks Running

1952

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=635

10%

12%

57%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 7% (39 / 635 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

4158 brought · 1495 players

Brought to game

4158

Ever drawn

995

Reached battlefield

635

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.7pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=566) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=2583).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 34% (n=327).

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 +0.0pp; 95% confidence interval -3.7pp to +3.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1132 instances

2.3%

Library

3.0%

Battlefield

62.5%

Graveyard

8.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 289 decks
2 Ghoulcaller Gisa 128 decks
3 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 98 decks
4 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 63 decks
5 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 38 decks
6 Sauron, the Dark Lord 27 decks
7 Ingris Stingerquill 23 decks
8 Loki, the Deceiver 23 decks
9 Lord of the Nazgûl 20 decks
10 Alela, Cunning Conqueror 19 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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.