Live Play Data

Midnight Reaper

· Creature — Zombie Knight · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1062

Decks Running

534

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

64%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=167

15%

12%

11%

42%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 23% (25 / 167 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

1063 brought · 469 players

Brought to game

1063

Ever drawn

259

Reached battlefield

167

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 36% 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.

≥ +0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=155) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=673).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=78).

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 +7.7pp; 95% confidence interval +0.1pp to +15.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

289 instances

4.2%

Library

20.8%

Battlefield

45.3%

Graveyard

9.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 64 decks
2 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 48 decks
3 Ghoulcaller Gisa 46 decks
4 Temmet, Naktamun's Will 40 decks
5 Teysa Karlov 38 decks
6 Gisa and Geralf 28 decks
7 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 17 decks
8 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 13 decks
9 The Scarab God 11 decks
10 Varina, Lich Queen 11 decks

Card text

Midnight Reaper

Creature — Zombie Knight

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.

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Foundations (FDN) · Rare · Illustrated by Sidharth Chaturvedi

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.