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Elder Deep-Fiend

· Creature — Eldrazi Octopus · Innistrad Remastered (INR)

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Times Brought

234

Decks Running

109

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

Elder Deep-Fiend

Creature — Eldrazi Octopus

Flash Emerge {5}

(You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.) When you cast this spell, tap up to four target permanents.

5 / 6

Innistrad Remastered (INR) · Rare · Illustrated by Jason Felix

Final zone distribution

44 instances

2.3%

Library

34.1%

Battlefield

15.9%

Graveyard

4.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 56 decks
2 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 19 decks
3 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep 11 decks
4 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep 7 decks
5 Whtz, the Bibliophile 2 decks
6 Animar, Soul of Elements 1 decks
7 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 1 decks
8 Azlask, the Swelling Scourge 1 decks
9 Breya, Etherium Shaper 1 decks
10 Captain N'ghathrod 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

234 brought · 106 players

Brought to game

234

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 58% 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.

≥ -11.3pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=21) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=138).

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 +0.4pp; 95% confidence interval -11.3pp to +12.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=26

50%

T6-9

38%

T10+

Median 8.5 P25 6 · P75 11 · max 17

On curve 50% (5 / 26 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 12%

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.