Live Play Data

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

· Creature — Zombie · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

3790

Decks Running

1810

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=562

11%

61%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 17

On curve 19% (61 / 562 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

3798 brought · 1395 players

Brought to game

3798

Ever drawn

948

Reached battlefield

562

Still on board at game end

355

Once cast, 63% 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.

≥ +19.4pp

Players who cast this card win 49% of the time (n=518) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=2352).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=348).

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 +23.8pp; 95% confidence interval +19.4pp to +28.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1076 instances

2.7%

Library

33.0%

Battlefield

26.9%

Graveyard

8.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 138 decks
2 Ghoulcaller Gisa 102 decks
3 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 85 decks
4 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 74 decks
5 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 71 decks
6 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 69 decks
7 Gisa and Geralf 45 decks
8 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 38 decks
9 The Scarab God 36 decks
10 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 33 decks

Card text

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

Creature — Zombie

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B}

in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

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Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Scott Murphy

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.