Live Play Data

Lazotep Plating

· Instant · War of the Spark (WAR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

751

Decks Running

352

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

41%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=67

10%

63%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 0% (0 / 67 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

752 brought · 330 players

Brought to game

752

Ever drawn

165

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=59) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=485).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=94).

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 +14.1pp; 95% confidence interval +2.4pp to +25.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

198 instances

3.0%

Library

3.5%

Battlefield

47.5%

Graveyard

9.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 83 decks
2 Gisa and Geralf 50 decks
3 Saruman, the White Hand 30 decks
4 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 23 decks
5 The Scarab God 14 decks
6 Varina, Lich Queen 13 decks
7 Aragorn, the Uniter 6 decks
8 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born 5 decks
9 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 4 decks
10 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 3 decks

Card text

Lazotep Plating

Instant

Amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.) You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. (You and they can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

War of the Spark (WAR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Yeong-Hao Han

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.