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Animate Dead

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

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Times Brought

988

Decks Running

486

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

247 instances

2.0%

Library

22.3%

Battlefield

38.1%

Graveyard

6.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Killian, Decisive Mentor 33 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 20 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 17 decks
4 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 17 decks
5 Deadpool, Trading Card 11 decks
6 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 9 decks
7 Celes, Rune Knight 8 decks
8 Edgar Markov 8 decks
9 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 8 decks
10 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

989 brought · 404 players

Brought to game

989

Ever drawn

216

Reached battlefield

125

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 44% 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.

≥ -1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=98) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=557).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=70) — 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 +3.8pp; 95% confidence interval -1.6pp to +9.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=125

13%

14%

57%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 2% (3 / 125 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

1247 of 300 tracked games 99%

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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. Playgroup has recorded 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.