Live Play Data

Midnight Reaper

· Creature — Zombie Knight · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1628

Decks Running

785

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=243

14%

11%

45%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 20% (33 / 243 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

1629 brought · 691 players

Brought to game

1629

Ever drawn

388

Reached battlefield

243

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.

≥ +2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=223) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1026).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=126).

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 +8.5pp; 95% confidence interval +2.2pp to +14.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

431 instances

3.9%

Library

20.2%

Battlefield

46.2%

Graveyard

7.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghoulcaller Gisa 140 decks
2 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 76 decks
3 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 55 decks
4 Temmet, Naktamun's Will 55 decks
5 Teysa Karlov 42 decks
6 Gisa and Geralf 41 decks
7 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 23 decks
8 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 18 decks
9 Varina, Lich Queen 17 decks
10 The Scarab God 15 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 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.