Live Play Data

Champion of the Perished

· Creature — Zombie · Innistrad: Midnight Hunt (MID)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

381

Decks Running

159

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=71

24%

10%

13%

27%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 12

On curve 24% (17 / 71 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 70%

The "good card" funnel

381 brought · 141 players

Brought to game

381

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -15.7pp

Players who cast this card win 16% of the time (n=63) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=243).

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 -5.8pp; 95% confidence interval -15.7pp to +4.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

102 instances

3.9%

Library

33.3%

Battlefield

38.2%

Graveyard

13.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 29 decks
2 Gisa and Geralf 26 decks
3 The Scarab God 17 decks
4 Varina, Lich Queen 14 decks
5 Ghoulcaller Gisa 9 decks
6 Zul Ashur, Lich Lord 7 decks
7 Olag and Miau, New Friends 6 decks
8 Gisa, the Hellraiser 5 decks
9 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born 4 decks
10 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer 4 decks

Card text

Champion of the Perished

Creature — Zombie

Whenever another Zombie you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

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Innistrad: Midnight Hunt (MID) · Rare · Illustrated by Kekai Kotaki

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.