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Loyal Subordinate

· Creature — Zombie · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

197

Decks Running

116

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

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

45 instances

2.2%

Library

33.3%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

13.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gisa and Geralf 32 decks
2 Abaddon the Despoiler 18 decks
3 Lord Windgrace 8 decks
4 Mogis, God of Slaughter 6 decks
5 Davros, Dalek Creator 5 decks
6 Queen Marchesa 5 decks
7 The Scarab God 5 decks
8 Aminatou, the Fateshifter 4 decks
9 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 3 decks
10 Temmet, Naktamun's Will 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

197 brought · 108 players

Brought to game

197

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 45% 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.

≥ -14.2pp

Players who cast this card win 17% of the time (n=26) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=111).

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 -3.9pp; 95% confidence interval -14.2pp to +6.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=33

12%

15%

18%

21%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 13

On curve 27% (5 / 33 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.