Live Play Data

Death Baron

· Creature — Zombie Wizard · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1758

Decks Running

734

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=342

15%

11%

10%

47%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 17% (53 / 342 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

1758 brought · 652 players

Brought to game

1758

Ever drawn

443

Reached battlefield

342

Still on board at game end

190

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ +1.0pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=301) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=1101).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=97).

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 +6.1pp; 95% confidence interval +1.0pp to +11.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

483 instances

2.9%

Library

39.3%

Battlefield

32.9%

Graveyard

8.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghoulcaller Gisa 217 decks
2 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 92 decks
3 Varina, Lich Queen 70 decks
4 The Scarab God 54 decks
5 Olag and Miau, New Friends 29 decks
6 Temmet, Naktamun's Will 28 decks
7 Gisa and Geralf 27 decks
8 Gisa, the Hellraiser 25 decks
9 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born 16 decks
10 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer 11 decks

Card text

Death Baron

Creature — Zombie Wizard

Skeletons you control and other Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have deathtouch. (Any amount of damage they deal to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

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Foundations (FDN) · Rare · Illustrated by Nils Hamm

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.