Live Play Data

Josu Vess, Lich Knight

· Legendary Creature — Zombie Knight · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

481

Decks Running

252

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

53%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=63

48%

T6-9

40%

T10+

Median 9 P25 7 · P75 11 · max 16

On curve 5% (2 / 63 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

481 brought · 240 players

Brought to game

481

Ever drawn

118

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 41% 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.

≥ -13.0pp

Players who cast this card win 17% of the time (n=52) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=289).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=51).

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 -2.2pp; 95% confidence interval -13.0pp to +8.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

134 instances

6.0%

Library

19.4%

Battlefield

34.3%

Graveyard

8.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghoulcaller Gisa 119 decks
2 Gisa and Geralf 37 decks
3 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 28 decks
4 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer 8 decks
5 Dihada, Binder of Wills 7 decks
6 The Scarab God 6 decks
7 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 6 decks
8 Ayara, First of Locthwain 5 decks
9 Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale 4 decks
10 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed 3 decks

Card text

Josu Vess, Lich Knight

Legendary Creature — Zombie Knight

Kicker

(You may pay an additional {5}

as you cast this spell.) Menace When Josu Vess enters, if he was kicked, create eight 2/2 black Zombie Knight creature tokens with menace.

4 / 5

March of the Machine Commander (MOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Tyler Jacobson

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.