Live Play Data

Debt to the Deathless

· Sorcery · The List (PLST)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

337

Decks Running

179

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

46%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=39

49%

T6-9

46%

T10+

Median 9 P25 8 · P75 11 · max 16

Cast same turn as drawn 31%

The "good card" funnel

340 brought · 168 players

Brought to game

340

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +13.0pp

Players who cast this card win 56% of the time (n=35) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=220).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=38).

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 +30.1pp; 95% confidence interval +13.0pp to +47.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

88 instances

4.5%

Library

15.9%

Battlefield

42.0%

Graveyard

37.5%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Silverquill, the Disputant 24 decks
2 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 21 decks
3 Liesa, Shroud of Dusk 13 decks
4 Omnath, Locus of All 10 decks
5 Astarion, the Decadent 7 decks
6 Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate 5 decks
7 Athreos, God of Passage 4 decks
8 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant 4 decks
9 Kambal, Consul of Allocation 4 decks
10 Mister Negative 4 decks

Card text

Debt to the Deathless

Sorcery

Each opponent loses two times X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

The List (PLST) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Seb McKinnon

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.