Live Play Data

Animate Dead

· Enchantment — Aura · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

4927

Decks Running

2215

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

57%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=680

15%

58%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 1% (6 / 680 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

The "good card" funnel

4934 brought · 1609 players

Brought to game

4934

Ever drawn

1200

Reached battlefield

680

Still on board at game end

283

Once cast, 42% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +7.7pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=625) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=2995).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=458).

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 +11.5pp; 95% confidence interval +7.7pp to +15.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1452 instances

2.8%

Library

19.5%

Battlefield

42.0%

Graveyard

8.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Killian, Decisive Mentor 148 decks
2 Kaalia of the Vast 82 decks
3 Sauron, the Dark Lord 68 decks
4 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 49 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 44 decks
6 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 31 decks
7 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 31 decks
8 Teval, the Balanced Scale 31 decks
9 Mirko, Obsessive Theorist 28 decks
10 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 27 decks

Card text

Animate Dead

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Bastien L. Deharme

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.