Live Play Data

Afterlife from the Loam

· Sorcery · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

564

Decks Running

271

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

37%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=49

55%

T6-9

35%

T10+

Median 9 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 16

On curve 49% (7 / 49 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

564 brought · 255 players

Brought to game

564

Ever drawn

131

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +6.2pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=44) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=314).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=68).

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 +20.2pp; 95% confidence interval +6.2pp to +34.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

189 instances

3.2%

Library

1.1%

Battlefield

54.0%

Graveyard

9.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Teval, the Balanced Scale 125 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 18 decks
3 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 11 decks
4 Baron Helmut Zemo 9 decks
5 Saruman, the White Hand 7 decks
6 Homer, the Hermit 6 decks
7 The Master of Lake-town 6 decks
8 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 4 decks
9 Saruman of Many Colors 3 decks
10 Belbe, Corrupted Observer 2 decks

Card text

Afterlife from the Loam

Sorcery

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}

.) For each player, choose up to one target creature card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. They're Zombies in addition to their other types.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Johann Bodin

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.