Live Play Data

Havengul Lich

· Creature — Zombie Wizard · Commander 2017 (C17)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

138

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

50%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=18

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

138 brought · 64 players

Brought to game

138

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -13.3pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=16) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=78).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=18).

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 +7.2pp; 95% confidence interval -13.3pp to +27.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

40 instances

5.0%

Library

27.5%

Battlefield

27.5%

Graveyard

5.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 18 decks
2 Gisa and Geralf 17 decks
3 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 4 decks
4 The Scarab God 3 decks
5 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born 2 decks
6 Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant 2 decks
7 Tasha, the Witch Queen 2 decks
8 Varina, Lich Queen 2 decks
9 Cosmic Spider-Man 1 decks
10 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld 1 decks

Card text

Havengul Lich

Creature — Zombie Wizard

: You may cast target creature card in a graveyard this turn. When you cast it this turn, this creature gains all activated abilities of that card until end of turn.

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Commander 2017 (C17) · Mythic · Illustrated by James Ryman

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.