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Death Baron

· Creature — Zombie Wizard · Foundations (FDN)

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Times Brought

939

Decks Running

440

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

203 instances

3.0%

Library

48.3%

Battlefield

24.6%

Graveyard

7.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

939 brought · 382 players

Brought to game

939

Ever drawn

179

Reached battlefield

138

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 71% 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.

≥ -2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=104) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=523).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=25).

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 +2.9pp; 95% confidence interval -2.4pp to +8.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=138

12%

14%

12%

41%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 23% (16 / 138 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.