Live Play Data

Awaken the Honored Dead

· Enchantment — Saga · Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

296

Decks Running

135

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=53

25%

21%

34%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 6% (3 / 53 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

296 brought · 125 players

Brought to game

296

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 40% 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.

≥ -3.0pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=49) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=161).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=24).

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 +10.3pp; 95% confidence interval -3.0pp to +23.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

104 instances

6.7%

Library

20.2%

Battlefield

43.3%

Graveyard

12.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Teval, the Balanced Scale 32 decks
2 Tom Bombadil 30 decks
3 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 14 decks
4 Thranduil, the Elvenking 9 decks
5 Homer, the Hermit 6 decks
6 Muldrotha, the Gravetide 5 decks
7 The Wise Mothman 5 decks
8 Sin, Spira's Punishment 4 decks
9 Teval, Arbiter of Virtue 4 decks
10 Go-Shintai of Life's Origin 3 decks

Card text

Awaken the Honored Dead

Enchantment — Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Destroy target nonland permanent. II — Mill three cards. III — You may discard a card. When you do, return target creature or land card from your graveyard to your hand.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM) · Rare · Illustrated by Clint Lockwood

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.