Live Play Data

Army of the Damned

· Sorcery · New Capenna Commander (NCC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1491

Decks Running

686

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

51%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=173

69%

T6-9

23%

T10+

Median 8 P25 7 · P75 9 · max 20

On curve 60% (25 / 173 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

1491 brought · 618 players

Brought to game

1491

Ever drawn

339

Reached battlefield

173

Still on board at game end

≥ +9.9pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=157) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=948).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=151).

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 +17.2pp; 95% confidence interval +9.9pp to +24.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

387 instances

2.6%

Library

5.4%

Battlefield

47.3%

Graveyard

11.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghoulcaller Gisa 170 decks
2 Witherbloom, the Balancer 72 decks
3 Gisa and Geralf 50 decks
4 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 47 decks
5 Olag and Miau, New Friends 31 decks
6 The Scarab God 31 decks
7 Magar of the Magic Strings 22 decks
8 Varina, Lich Queen 21 decks
9 Ayara, First of Locthwain 18 decks
10 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 11 decks

Card text

Army of the Damned

Sorcery

Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens. Flashback {7}

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

New Capenna Commander (NCC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Ryan Pancoast

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.