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Lively Dirge

· Sorcery · Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ)

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Times Brought

450

Decks Running

251

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Lively Dirge

Sorcery

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1}

— Search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle. + {2}

— Return up to two creature cards with total mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Warren Mahy

Final zone distribution

104 instances

1.0%

Library

1.0%

Battlefield

55.8%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 16 decks
2 Thranduil, the Elvenking 15 decks
3 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 8 decks
4 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 8 decks
5 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 7 decks
6 Edgar Markov 6 decks
7 Inalla, Archmage Ritualist 6 decks
8 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 6 decks
9 Celes, Rune Knight 5 decks
10 Imotekh the Stormlord 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

450 brought · 227 players

Brought to game

450

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.9pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=34) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=251).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (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 +5.8pp; 95% confidence interval -2.9pp to +14.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=44

23%

45%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 21

On curve 9% (4 / 44 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.