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Merciless Executioner

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

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Times Brought

216

Decks Running

126

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

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

Final zone distribution

45 instances

6.7%

Library

15.6%

Battlefield

42.2%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 36 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 28 decks
3 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 8 decks
4 Vren, the Relentless 7 decks
5 Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning 3 decks
6 Fumulus, the Infestation 3 decks
7 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder 2 decks
8 Gisa, Glorious Resurrector 2 decks
9 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer 2 decks
10 Sauron, the Dark Lord 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

216 brought · 113 players

Brought to game

216

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 28% 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.

≥ -13.5pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=19) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=122).

Observed gap -1.4pp; 95% confidence interval -13.5pp to +10.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=25

12%

16%

40%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 16% (2 / 25 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

25 of 100 times cast 25%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.