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Live Play Data

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

{3} {B} {B} · Creature — Zombie · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)
9%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
5315
Decks Running
2404
Median Cast Turn
7.0
Drawn → Played
60%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=788
1%
T1
1%
T2
2%
T3
5%
T4
11%
T5
60%
T6-9
21%
T10+
Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 17
On curve 19% (84 / 788 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

5323 brought · 1827 players
Brought to game
5323
Ever drawn
1324
Reached battlefield
788
Still on board at game end
468

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ +18.5pp

Players who cast this card win 46% of the time (n=728) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=3324).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=481).

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 +22.1pp; 95% confidence interval +18.5pp to +25.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1485 instances
2.7%
Library
31.5%
Battlefield
27.4%
Graveyard
7.9%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Gray Merchant of Asphodel card

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

{3} {B} {B}
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 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.