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Animate Dead

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

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Times Brought

2883

Decks Running

1389

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

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

Final zone distribution

706 instances

2.3%

Library

24.8%

Battlefield

34.8%

Graveyard

6.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Killian, Decisive Mentor 70 decks
2 Kaalia of the Vast 61 decks
3 Sauron, the Dark Lord 59 decks
4 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 49 decks
5 Deadpool, Trading Card 26 decks
6 Muldrotha, the Gravetide 25 decks
7 Teval, the Balanced Scale 21 decks
8 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 20 decks
9 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 19 decks
10 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 18 decks

The "good card" funnel

2884 brought · 1072 players

Brought to game

2884

Ever drawn

614

Reached battlefield

340

Still on board at game end

175

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ +2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=262) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1547).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=207).

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 +5.4pp; 95% confidence interval +2.2pp to +8.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=340

11%

15%

54%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 4% (10 / 340 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

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.