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Live Play Data

Crumbling Necropolis

Land · Marvel Super Heroes Commander (MSC)
32%
Live Inclusion
Buy on TCGplayer
Times Brought
668
Decks Running
380
Median Cast Turn
4.0
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 4.0.

Crumbling Necropolis is a steady fixture in Grixis Commander decks on Playgroup Live. Across 638 tracked multiplayer games, 32% of tracked Grixis builds include it, and it has shown up in 380 of the 1184 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 4.0. The mode is turn 1, reflecting copies kept in the opening hand. Once it resolves, stickiness is near-total at 91%. 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 323 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
  • T4.0 median turn the land first enters play
  • 91% battlefield stickiness once it resolves
  • 323 distinct players contributing data, spread evenly across the dataset

First-cast turn

n=126
37%
T1
6%
T2
6%
T3
8%
T4
10%
T5
24%
T6-9
9%
T10+
Median 4.0 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 16
Cast same turn as drawn 73%

The "good card" funnel

669 brought · 323 players
Brought to game
669
Ever drawn
170
Reached battlefield
126
Still on board at game end
115
74%

Of 669 copies brought to games, 170 were drawn, 126 of those were played, and the vast majority remained on the battlefield through the end of the game.

≥ +0.5pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=119) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=431).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=42) — 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 +8.6pp; 95% confidence interval +0.5pp to +16.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

194 instances
2.1%
Library
59.3%
Battlefield
19.6%
Graveyard
6.2%
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

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 638 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 170 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 4.0, 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 30% normalized win rate across 119 observations, compared to 21% in games where it stayed in the library across 431 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 638 tracked multiplayer games involve 323 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.