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Loyal Subordinate

· Creature — Zombie · Commander Masters (CMM)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

126

Decks Running

In Decks

473

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Loyal Subordinate

Creature — Zombie

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, each opponent loses 3 life.

3 / 1

Commander Masters (CMM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Kev Walker

Final zone distribution

36 instances

19.4%

Battlefield

41.7%

Graveyard

11.1%

Exile

27.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Abaddon the Despoiler 11 decks
2 Gisa and Geralf 10 decks
3 Davros, Dalek Creator 7 decks
4 Belbe, Corrupted Observer 5 decks
5 Mogis, God of Slaughter 5 decks
6 Queen Marchesa 5 decks
7 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 4 decks
8 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 2 decks
9 Liesa, Shroud of Dusk 2 decks
10 Lord Windgrace 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

129 brought · 70 players

Brought to game

129

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 32% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -13.1pp

Players who cast this card win 14% of the time (n=21) , vs 13% when it never left the library (n=80).

Observed gap +1.5pp; 95% confidence interval -13.1pp to +16.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=22

27%

36%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 10

On curve 14% (2 / 22 cast on T3)

22 of 100 times cast 22%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.