Live Play Data

Erebos, Bleak-Hearted

· Legendary Enchantment Creature — God · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

308

Decks Running

140

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=44

18%

16%

45%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 25% (8 / 44 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

308 brought · 130 players

Brought to game

308

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 79% 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.

≥ -1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 44% of the time (n=41) , vs 30% when it never left the library (n=205).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=28).

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 +14.3pp; 95% confidence interval -1.2pp to +29.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

79 instances

3.8%

Library

43.0%

Battlefield

15.2%

Graveyard

8.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Anikthea, Hand of Erebos 14 decks
2 Rendmaw, Creaking Nest 14 decks
3 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 13 decks
4 Child of Alara 5 decks
5 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 4 decks
6 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 4 decks
7 Zur, Eternal Schemer 4 decks
8 Elenda, the Dusk Rose 3 decks
9 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder 3 decks
10 Teysa Karlov 3 decks

Card text

Erebos, Bleak-Hearted

Legendary Enchantment Creature — God

Indestructible As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. Whenever another creature you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card. {1}

, Sacrifice another creature: Target creature gets -2/-1 until end of turn.

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Commander Masters (CMM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Chase Stone

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.