Live Play Data

Midnight Reaper

· Creature — Zombie Knight · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

419

Decks Running

225

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

61%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=60

15%

13%

45%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 20% (9 / 60 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

The "good card" funnel

420 brought · 204 players

Brought to game

420

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 35% 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.

≥ -9.2pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=55) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=265).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=34).

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 +2.9pp; 95% confidence interval -9.2pp to +15.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

113 instances

5.3%

Library

18.6%

Battlefield

44.2%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 31 decks
2 Teysa Karlov 23 decks
3 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 20 decks
4 Temmet, Naktamun's Will 19 decks
5 Gisa and Geralf 10 decks
6 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 9 decks
7 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 7 decks
8 The Scarab God 6 decks
9 Ayara, First of Locthwain 4 decks
10 Varina, Lich Queen 4 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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.