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Animate Dead

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

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Times Brought

241

Decks Running

128

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.

Final zone distribution

52 instances

23.1%

Battlefield

40.4%

Graveyard

1.9%

Exile

34.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Killian, Decisive Mentor 14 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 5 decks
3 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 4 decks
4 Coram, the Undertaker 3 decks
5 Kaalia of the Vast 3 decks
6 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 3 decks
7 Baba Lysaga, Night Witch 2 decks
8 Captain N'ghathrod 2 decks
9 Dina, Essence Brewer 2 decks
10 Disa the Restless 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

242 brought · 112 players

Brought to game

242

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=25) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=161).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=19) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +5.5pp; 95% confidence interval -4.7pp to +15.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=25

12%

24%

16%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 6 · max 10

On curve 8% (2 / 25 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

25 of 100 times cast 25%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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.