Live Play Data

Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord

· Legendary Creature — Zombie Elf · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

879

Decks Running

399

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=156

10%

59%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 13% (12 / 156 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

879 brought · 371 players

Brought to game

879

Ever drawn

237

Reached battlefield

139

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 68% 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.

≥ +7.1pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=128) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=483).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=89).

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 +15.6pp; 95% confidence interval +7.1pp to +24.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

285 instances

3.2%

Library

33.3%

Battlefield

26.3%

Graveyard

7.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Teval, the Balanced Scale 106 decks
2 Thranduil, the Elvenking 74 decks
3 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 23 decks
4 Dina, Essence Brewer 20 decks
5 The Muckslinger Gang 15 decks
6 Jenova, Ancient Calamity 14 decks
7 Tom, Bert, and William 13 decks
8 The Mycotyrant 12 decks
9 Yargle and Multani 10 decks
10 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave 9 decks

Card text

Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord

Legendary Creature — Zombie Elf

Jarad gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard. {1}

, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses life equal to the sacrificed creature's power. Sacrifice a Swamp and a Forest: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Eric Deschamps

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.