Live Play Data

Worthy Cost

· Sorcery · Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

160

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

6.5

Drawn → Played

51%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=24

13%

17%

63%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 0% (0 / 24 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

160 brought · 70 players

Brought to game

160

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -14.6pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=21) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=101).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=19).

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 +5.2pp; 95% confidence interval -14.6pp to +25.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

49 instances

2.0%

Library

53.1%

Graveyard

4.1%

Exile

40.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Teval, the Balanced Scale 5 decks
2 Zurgo, Thunder's Decree 5 decks
3 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 4 decks
4 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 3 decks
5 Lathril, Blade of the Elves 3 decks
6 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 3 decks
7 Zurgo Stormrender 3 decks
8 Jenova, Ancient Calamity 2 decks
9 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 2 decks
10 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 2 decks

Card text

Worthy Cost

Sorcery

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM) · Common · Illustrated by Andrew Mar

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.