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Dread Summons

· Sorcery · Foundations (FDN)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

143

Decks Running

In Decks

671

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

38 instances

5.3%

Library

57.9%

Graveyard

10.5%

Exile

26.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Temmet, Naktamun's Will 17 decks
2 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 10 decks
3 The Scarab God 7 decks
4 Anhelo, the Painter 5 decks
5 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 4 decks
6 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born 3 decks
7 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus 2 decks
8 Soundwave, Sonic Spy // Soundwave, Superior Captain 2 decks
9 Varina, Lich Queen 2 decks
10 Anikthea, Hand of Erebos 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

143 brought · 73 players

Brought to game

143

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -10.1pp

Players who cast this card win 19% of the time (n=17) , vs 11% when it never left the library (n=91).

Observed gap +7.9pp; 95% confidence interval -10.1pp to +25.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=20

10%

15%

60%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 15

Cast same turn as drawn 20%

20 of 100 times cast 20%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.