Live Play Data

Master of Death

· Creature — Zombie Wizard · Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

136

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

6.5

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=22

14%

50%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 14% (2 / 22 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 15%

The "good card" funnel

136 brought · 49 players

Brought to game

136

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 55% 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.

≥ -3.8pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=20) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=85).

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 +17.9pp; 95% confidence interval -3.8pp to +39.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

41 instances

2.4%

Library

29.3%

Battlefield

39.0%

Graveyard

9.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Mirko, Obsessive Theorist 18 decks
2 Varina, Lich Queen 8 decks
3 Teval, the Balanced Scale 6 decks
4 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 4 decks
5 Gisa and Geralf 2 decks
6 Tormod, the Desecrator 2 decks
7 Glarb, Calamity's Augur 1 decks
8 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born 1 decks
9 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One 1 decks
10 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 1 decks

Card text

Master of Death

Creature — Zombie Wizard

When this creature enters, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.) At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard, you may pay 1 life. If you do, return it to your hand.

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Murders at Karlov Manor Commander (MKC) · Rare · Illustrated by John Stanko

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.