Live Play Data

Dread Summons

· Sorcery · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

432

Decks Running

220

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=66

12%

56%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

432 brought · 209 players

Brought to game

432

Ever drawn

113

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -6.3pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=53) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=257).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 12% (n=41).

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 +5.1pp; 95% confidence interval -6.3pp to +16.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

127 instances

3.9%

Library

2.4%

Battlefield

57.5%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Temmet, Naktamun's Will 49 decks
2 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 24 decks
3 The Scarab God 18 decks
4 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 16 decks
5 Syr Konrad, the Grim 8 decks
6 Anhelo, the Painter 7 decks
7 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 6 decks
8 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer 5 decks
9 Varina, Lich Queen 5 decks
10 Bladewing, Deathless Tyrant 4 decks

Card text

Dread Summons

Sorcery

Each player mills X cards. For each creature card put into a graveyard this way, you create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Foundations (FDN) · Rare · Illustrated by Izzy

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.