Live Play Data

Merciless Executioner

· Creature — Orc Warrior · The Hobbit Eternal (HOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1140

Decks Running

545

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=190

13%

18%

47%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 7% (12 / 190 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

1140 brought · 501 players

Brought to game

1140

Ever drawn

264

Reached battlefield

190

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 17% 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.

≥ +6.5pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=168) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=722).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=62).

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 +13.9pp; 95% confidence interval +6.5pp to +21.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

297 instances

2.7%

Library

10.8%

Battlefield

60.3%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 120 decks
2 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 104 decks
3 Vren, the Relentless 27 decks
4 Sauron, the Dark Lord 26 decks
5 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 25 decks
6 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 24 decks
7 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 22 decks
8 Squall, SeeD Mercenary 17 decks
9 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 14 decks
10 Zurgo Helmsmasher 12 decks

Card text

Merciless Executioner

Creature — Orc Warrior

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

3 / 1

The Hobbit Eternal (HOC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Anton Solovianchyk

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.