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Butcher of Malakir

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

237

Decks Running

133

In Decks

1207

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

45 instances

26.7%

Battlefield

40.0%

Graveyard

8.9%

Exile

24.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 15 decks
2 Strefan, Maurer Progenitor 11 decks
3 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 10 decks
4 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 7 decks
5 Teysa Karlov 7 decks
6 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 5 decks
7 Elenda, the Dusk Rose 4 decks
8 Braids, Arisen Nightmare 3 decks
9 Nalia de'Arnise 3 decks
10 Slimefoot and Squee 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

240 brought · 130 players

Brought to game

240

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 44% 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.

≥ -13.8pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=26) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=171).

Observed gap +2.3pp; 95% confidence interval -13.8pp to +18.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=27

19%

63%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 48% (6 / 27 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

27 of 100 times cast 27%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 630,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.