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Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire

Instant // Land · Zendikar Rising (ZNR)

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Times Brought

2508

Decks Running

1235

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

552 instances

1.6%

Library

28.6%

Battlefield

28.8%

Graveyard

5.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 72 decks
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 38 decks
3 Sauron, the Dark Lord 32 decks
4 Deadpool, Trading Card 24 decks
5 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 24 decks
6 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 23 decks
7 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 21 decks
8 Kaalia of the Vast 20 decks
9 Uugguu, the Omniplasm 19 decks
10 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 19 decks

The "good card" funnel

2513 brought · 915 players

Brought to game

2513

Ever drawn

493

Reached battlefield

270

Still on board at game end

158

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ -0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=202) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=1445).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=172).

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 +2.8pp; 95% confidence interval -0.9pp to +6.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=270

10%

16%

13%

19%

31%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 10% (26 / 270 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.