Live Play Data

Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest

· Legendary Creature — Insect Shaman · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

508

Decks Running

272

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=84

11%

58%

T6-9

24%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 16

On curve 18% (9 / 84 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

509 brought · 250 players

Brought to game

509

Ever drawn

124

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ +1.8pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=75) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=295).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=40).

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 +12.4pp; 95% confidence interval +1.8pp to +23.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

156 instances

3.2%

Library

33.3%

Battlefield

31.4%

Graveyard

5.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest

Legendary Creature — Insect Shaman

Flying Whenever a player sacrifices another permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Mathias Kollros

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.