Live Play Data

Headless Rider

· Creature — Zombie · Innistrad: Crimson Vow (VOW)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1131

Decks Running

496

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=195

11%

21%

10%

11%

34%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 33% (41 / 195 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

1131 brought · 454 players

Brought to game

1131

Ever drawn

264

Reached battlefield

195

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 48% 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.

≥ -2.9pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=169) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=724).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=64).

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 +3.8pp; 95% confidence interval -2.9pp to +10.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

295 instances

2.7%

Library

31.9%

Battlefield

35.6%

Graveyard

10.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghoulcaller Gisa 182 decks
2 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 88 decks
3 Varina, Lich Queen 49 decks
4 The Scarab God 34 decks
5 Olag and Miau, New Friends 15 decks
6 The Ghoul, Gunslinger 13 decks
7 Gisa and Geralf 12 decks
8 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born 12 decks
9 Zul Ashur, Lich Lord 10 decks
10 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer 8 decks

Card text

Headless Rider

Creature — Zombie

Whenever this creature or another nontoken Zombie you control dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

3 / 1

Innistrad: Crimson Vow (VOW) · Rare · Illustrated by E. M. Gist

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.