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· Sorcery · Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)

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Times Brought

139

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

25 instances

76.0%

Graveyard

8.0%

Exile

16.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zurgo, Thunder's Decree 5 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 4 decks
3 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 3 decks
4 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 3 decks
5 Doctor Doom 2 decks
6 Jenova, Ancient Calamity 2 decks
7 Marrow-Gnawer 2 decks
8 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 2 decks
9 Super Shredder 2 decks
10 Alela, Cunning Conqueror 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

139 brought · 60 players

Brought to game

139

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -12.2pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=16) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=82).

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 +0.7pp; 95% confidence interval -12.2pp to +13.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=20

15%

10%

50%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 0% (0 / 20 cast on T1)

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.