Live Play Data

Living Death

· Sorcery · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2278

Decks Running

1094

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

54%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=293

67%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 18

On curve 14% (26 / 293 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

The "good card" funnel

2279 brought · 894 players

Brought to game

2279

Ever drawn

539

Reached battlefield

293

Still on board at game end

≥ +5.5pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=268) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=1391).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=220).

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 +11.1pp; 95% confidence interval +5.5pp to +16.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

669 instances

3.6%

Library

4.0%

Battlefield

52.8%

Graveyard

10.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Living Death

Sorcery

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Mark Winters

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.