Live Play Data

Crumbling Necropolis

Land · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)

32%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

619

Decks Running

348

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

32% of Playgroup Live's tracked Grixis Commander decks run Crumbling Necropolis. When it reaches a player's hand, 74% of copies are played before the game ends, with a median first-play turn of 4.

Crumbling Necropolis is a steady fixture in Grixis Commander decks on Playgroup Live. Across 590 tracked multiplayer games, 32% of tracked Grixis builds include it, and it has shown up in 348 of the 1093 distinct decks with at least one tracked game.

As a land, Crumbling Necropolis enters tapped and produces one of blue, black, or red. It costs nothing beyond a deck slot, which explains its presence in the format. The core play pattern is straightforward: 74% of drawn copies are played before the game ends, and the median turn it hits the battlefield is turn 4. The mode is turn 1, reflecting copies kept in the opening hand. Once it resolves, stickiness is near-total at 92%. Lands are almost never removed.

Every commander at the top of the distribution shares the same Grixis color identity (blue, black, red), which is structurally expected for a fixing land. The spread across 299 unique players, with no single player accounting for more than a small slice of the data, gives this dataset reasonable breadth for a card of its profile.

At a glance

32% of tracked Grixis Commander decks include Crumbling Necropolis
25% draw rate per game, typical for a singleton in a 100-card deck
74% of drawn copies reach the battlefield before the game ends
T4 median turn the land first enters play
92% battlefield stickiness once it resolves
299 distinct players contributing data, spread evenly across the dataset

First-cast turn

n=117

37%

10%

23%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 16

Cast same turn as drawn 73%

The "good card" funnel

620 brought · 299 players

Brought to game

620

Ever drawn

158

Reached battlefield

117

Still on board at game end

108

74%

Of 620 copies brought to games, 158 were drawn, 117 of those were played, and the vast majority remained on the battlefield through the end of the game.

≥ +1.0pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=111) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=404).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=39) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +9.5pp; 95% confidence interval +1.0pp to +17.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

182 instances

2.2%

Library

59.3%

Battlefield

19.8%

Graveyard

6.6%

Exile

Most tracked copies of Crumbling Necropolis finish on the battlefield, which makes sense for a land: it enters and stays. The small graveyard count reflects mill or sacrifice effects rather than removal, and the handful left in hand shows games that ended before the land could be deployed.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 46 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 29 decks
3 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 21 decks
4 Fire Lord Azula 20 decks
5 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 18 decks
6 Edward Kenway 12 decks
7 Abaddon the Despoiler 11 decks
8 Davros, Dalek Creator 11 decks
9 Be'lakor, the Dark Master 9 decks
10 Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor 9 decks

All ten commanders in this chart share Grixis color identity, so the distribution is less about strategic affinity and more about which Grixis commanders are most popular in the tracked player pool. Doctor Doom, King of Latveria leads by a wide margin in raw deck count.

Frequently Asked

How often is Crumbling Necropolis drawn in a Commander game?

In 590 tracked multiplayer games where Crumbling Necropolis was in the deck, it was drawn 25% of the time. That rate is consistent with any singleton in a 100-card deck. Of 158 instances that reached a player's hand, 74% were played before the game ended. The remainder reflects games that ended while the land was still in hand, not deliberate choice to withhold it.

What turn does Crumbling Necropolis typically enter the battlefield?

The median first-play turn is 4, with a mode of turn 1 driven by opening-hand keeps. The distribution stretches into the late game, with the 90th percentile landing around turn 9. That spread is normal for a land that sees play whenever it's drawn rather than when a player specifically chooses to develop their mana.

Does playing Crumbling Necropolis correlate with winning?

Games where Crumbling Necropolis resolved show a 31% normalized win rate across 111 observations, compared to 21% in games where it stayed in the library across 404 observations. The gap is a directional positive signal, but Crumbling Necropolis is a mana-fixing tool rather than a win condition. Higher win rates when it's cast likely reflect better deck construction overall rather than the land itself deciding games.

Is Crumbling Necropolis legal in Commander?

Yes. Crumbling Necropolis is legal in Commander, as well as Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Duel Commander, and Oathbreaker. It is not legal in Standard, Pioneer, Alchemy, Brawl, or Pauper. In Commander it is unrestricted and fits into any deck with blue, black, and red in its color identity.

Which commanders most commonly run Crumbling Necropolis?

Every commander in the top ten shares Grixis identity (blue, black, red), which is expected for a three-color fixing land. Doctor Doom, King of Latveria leads the list by raw deck count, followed by the two Sauron commanders and Fire Lord Azula. The spread across many different commanders rather than one dominant pairing suggests Crumbling Necropolis functions as a generic Grixis staple rather than a build-around piece.

How concentrated is the data behind these stats?

The 590 tracked multiplayer games involve 299 distinct players who brought Crumbling Necropolis to a game. No single player accounts for more than a small fraction of those appearances. That spread makes the dataset more representative than one dominated by a single heavily active player, though Playgroup Live's sample is still directional rather than exhaustive.