Live Play Data

Lingering Souls

· Sorcery · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

272

Decks Running

149

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=50

16%

34%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 24% (8 / 50 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

272 brought · 144 players

Brought to game

272

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -9.8pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=48) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=163).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=22).

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 +3.0pp; 95% confidence interval -9.8pp to +15.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

81 instances

2.5%

Library

3.7%

Battlefield

40.7%

Graveyard

30.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 89 decks
2 Silverquill, the Disputant 20 decks
3 Zurgo Stormrender 15 decks
4 King of the Oathbreakers 5 decks
5 Teysa Karlov 5 decks
6 Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar 3 decks
7 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 2 decks
8 Baron Bertram Graywater 1 decks
9 Betor, Ancestor's Voice 1 decks
10 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 1 decks

Card text

Lingering Souls

Sorcery

Create two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying. Flashback {1}

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by John Stanko

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.