Live Play Data

Black Sun's Zenith

· Sorcery · Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1022

Decks Running

524

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=132

53%

T6-9

33%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 15

Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

1022 brought · 486 players

Brought to game

1022

Ever drawn

253

Reached battlefield

132

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=121) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=636).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=111).

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 +5.7pp; 95% confidence interval -2.0pp to +13.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

283 instances

26.5%

Library

3.9%

Battlefield

27.9%

Graveyard

4.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Black Sun's Zenith

Sorcery

Put X -1/-1 counters on each creature. Shuffle Black Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander (ECC) · Rare · Illustrated by Daniel Ljunggren

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.