Live Play Data

Headless Rider

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

343

Decks Running

167

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=59

19%

20%

15%

32%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 39% (12 / 59 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

343 brought · 148 players

Brought to game

343

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 53% 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.

≥ -6.2pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=51) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=215).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 39% (n=19).

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 +6.0pp; 95% confidence interval -6.2pp to +18.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

93 instances

3.2%

Library

33.3%

Battlefield

32.3%

Graveyard

16.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 54 decks
2 The Scarab God 19 decks
3 Varina, Lich Queen 19 decks
4 The Ghoul, Gunslinger 9 decks
5 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born 8 decks
6 Zul Ashur, Lich Lord 8 decks
7 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer 6 decks
8 Ghoulcaller Gisa 5 decks
9 Olag and Miau, New Friends 5 decks
10 Gisa and Geralf 4 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.