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Dance of the Dead card art
Live Play Data

Dance of the Dead

{1} {B} · Enchantment — Aura · Masters Edition II (ME2)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
847
Decks Running
362
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
52%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=115
0%
T1
2%
T2
6%
T3
10%
T4
15%
T5
55%
T6-9
13%
T10+
Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 23
On curve 2% (2 / 115 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

847 brought · 301 players
Brought to game
847
Ever drawn
220
Reached battlefield
115
Still on board at game end
51

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.

≥ +6.2pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=104) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=511).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=90).

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 +15.8pp; 95% confidence interval +6.2pp to +25.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

258 instances
2.3%
Library
19.8%
Battlefield
36.0%
Graveyard
7.8%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Dance of the Dead card

Dance of the Dead

{1} {B}
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Put enchanted creature card onto the battlefield tapped under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step. At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {1}{B}. If the player does, untap that creature.
Masters Edition II (ME2) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Randy Gallegos

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.