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Lingering Souls

· Sorcery · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

176

Decks Running

105

In Decks

673

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

55 instances

3.6%

Library

3.6%

Battlefield

43.6%

Graveyard

29.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 68 decks
2 Silverquill, the Disputant 13 decks
3 Zurgo Stormrender 10 decks
4 Teysa Karlov 4 decks
5 King of the Oathbreakers 3 decks
6 Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar 2 decks
7 Baron Bertram Graywater 1 decks
8 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 1 decks
9 Ghave, Guru of Spores 1 decks
10 Minthara, Merciless Soul 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

176 brought · 101 players

Brought to game

176

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -11.7pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=33) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=107).

Observed gap +3.7pp; 95% confidence interval -11.7pp to +19.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=35

11%

14%

37%

T6-9

23%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 17% (4 / 35 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 31%

35 of 100 times cast 35%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.