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Eerie Ultimatum

· Sorcery · Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (IKO)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

340

Decks Running

162

In Decks

1334

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Eerie Ultimatum

Sorcery

Return any number of permanent cards with different names from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (IKO) · Rare · Illustrated by Jason A. Engle

Final zone distribution

99 instances

5.1%

Library

11.1%

Battlefield

39.4%

Graveyard

9.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 16 decks
2 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 10 decks
3 Go-Shintai of Life's Origin 10 decks
4 The Necrobloom 9 decks
5 The Ur-Dragon 9 decks
6 Nethroi, Apex of Death 7 decks
7 Felothar the Steadfast 6 decks
8 Kenrith, the Returned King 6 decks
9 Terra, Magical Adept // Esper Terra 6 decks
10 The First Sliver 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

341 brought · 156 players

Brought to game

341

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +7.7pp

Players who cast this card win 47% of the time (n=43) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=208).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=36) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +23.0pp; 95% confidence interval +7.7pp to +38.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=44

14%

59%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 13

On curve 27% (4 / 44 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

44 of 100 times cast 44%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.