Live Play Data

Barbed Servitor

· Artifact Creature — Construct · Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

356

Decks Running

153

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=53

17%

13%

55%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 19% (9 / 53 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

356 brought · 152 players

Brought to game

356

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 62% 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.

≥ -8.8pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=44) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=242).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 10% (n=26).

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 +4.2pp; 95% confidence interval -8.8pp to +17.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

90 instances

2.2%

Library

36.7%

Battlefield

28.9%

Graveyard

11.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dr. Eggman 23 decks
2 Smaug the Impenetrable 20 decks
3 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest 9 decks
4 Maarika, Brutal Gladiator 8 decks
5 Deadpool, Trading Card 6 decks
6 Starscream, Power Hungry // Starscream, Seeker Leader 6 decks
7 Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar 5 decks
8 Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar 5 decks
9 Queen Marchesa 5 decks
10 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 3 decks

Card text

Barbed Servitor

Artifact Creature — Construct

Indestructible When this creature enters, suspect it. (It has menace and can't block.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. Whenever this creature is dealt damage, target opponent loses that much life.

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Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM) · Rare · Illustrated by Simon Dominic

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.