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Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire

Instant // Land · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

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Times Brought

866

Decks Running

489

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

Malakir Rebirth

Instant

Choose target creature. You lose 2 life. Until end of turn, that creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Malakir Mire

Land

This land enters tapped. {T}

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Zendikar Rising (ZNR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Marta Nael

Final zone distribution

200 instances

2.5%

Library

26.0%

Battlefield

26.5%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 29 decks
2 Sauron, the Dark Lord 15 decks
3 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 9 decks
4 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 9 decks
5 Deadpool, Trading Card 8 decks
6 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 8 decks
7 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 8 decks
8 Queen Marchesa 7 decks
9 The Serpent Society 7 decks
10 Umbris, Fear Manifest 7 decks

The "good card" funnel

867 brought · 398 players

Brought to game

867

Ever drawn

180

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ +2.1pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=77) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=503).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=68) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +7.7pp; 95% confidence interval +2.1pp to +13.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=96

13%

16%

13%

14%

34%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 13% (12 / 96 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

96 of 100 times cast 96%

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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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.