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Butcher of Malakir

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

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Times Brought

274

Decks Running

130

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

55 instances

29.1%

Battlefield

34.5%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

29.1%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 19 decks
2 Clavileño, First of the Blessed 15 decks
3 Strefan, Maurer Progenitor 10 decks
4 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 9 decks
5 Teysa Karlov 7 decks
6 Nalia de'Arnise 5 decks
7 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 4 decks
8 Elenda, the Dusk Rose 3 decks
9 Ghoulcaller Gisa 3 decks
10 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

274 brought · 127 players

Brought to game

274

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -7.6pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=22) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=176).

Observed gap +3.4pp; 95% confidence interval -7.6pp to +14.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=32

59%

T6-9

28%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 15

On curve 41% (6 / 32 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 16%

32 of 100 times cast 32%

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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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.