Live Play Data

Butcher of Malakir

· Creature — Vampire Warrior · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

848

Decks Running

421

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=103

13%

62%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 50% (18 / 103 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

851 brought · 386 players

Brought to game

851

Ever drawn

176

Reached battlefield

103

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 49% 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.

≥ +0.6pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=95) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=564).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=68).

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 +9.6pp; 95% confidence interval +0.6pp to +18.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

194 instances

5.2%

Library

25.8%

Battlefield

28.9%

Graveyard

9.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 59 decks
2 Strefan, Maurer Progenitor 32 decks
3 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 26 decks
4 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 25 decks
5 Teysa Karlov 15 decks
6 Nalia de'Arnise 14 decks
7 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 13 decks
8 Elenda, the Dusk Rose 9 decks
9 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 9 decks
10 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 8 decks

Card text

Butcher of Malakir

Creature — Vampire Warrior

Flying Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

5 / 4

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Jason Chan

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.