Live Play Data

Merciless Executioner

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

892

Decks Running

460

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=149

13%

19%

48%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 11% (13 / 149 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

892 brought · 426 players

Brought to game

892

Ever drawn

211

Reached battlefield

149

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 18% 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.

≥ +4.6pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=134) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=552).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=51).

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 +12.9pp; 95% confidence interval +4.6pp to +21.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

241 instances

2.5%

Library

11.2%

Battlefield

59.3%

Graveyard

6.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 106 decks
2 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 86 decks
3 Sauron, the Dark Lord 24 decks
4 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 22 decks
5 Vren, the Relentless 21 decks
6 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 18 decks
7 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 18 decks
8 Squall, SeeD Mercenary 15 decks
9 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 11 decks
10 Super Shredder 10 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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.