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Afterlife from the Loam

· Sorcery · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

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Times Brought

322

Decks Running

136

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

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

Final zone distribution

91 instances

2.2%

Library

4.4%

Battlefield

51.6%

Graveyard

11.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Teval, the Balanced Scale 64 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 11 decks
3 Hidetsugu and Kairi 6 decks
4 Baron Helmut Zemo 4 decks
5 Homer, the Hermit 4 decks
6 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 3 decks
7 Gisa and Geralf 2 decks
8 The Scarab God 2 decks
9 Belbe, Corrupted Observer 1 decks
10 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

322 brought · 125 players

Brought to game

322

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -14.7pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=20) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=174).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=24).

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 -3.1pp; 95% confidence interval -14.7pp to +8.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=25

68%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 76% (2 / 25 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

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.