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Midnight Reaper

· Creature — Zombie Knight · Foundations (FDN)

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Times Brought

318

Decks Running

158

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

Midnight Reaper

Creature — Zombie Knight

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

3 / 2

Foundations (FDN) · Rare · Illustrated by Sidharth Chaturvedi

Final zone distribution

64 instances

25.0%

Battlefield

46.9%

Graveyard

7.8%

Exile

20.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Temmet, Naktamun's Will 23 decks
2 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 23 decks
3 Gisa and Geralf 13 decks
4 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 11 decks
5 Teysa Karlov 11 decks
6 The Scarab God 4 decks
7 Ghoulcaller Gisa 3 decks
8 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 3 decks
9 Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker 3 decks
10 Syr Konrad, the Grim 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

318 brought · 154 players

Brought to game

318

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 41% 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.

≥ -7.5pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=31) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=197).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=17).

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 +2.1pp; 95% confidence interval -7.5pp to +11.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=39

15%

18%

10%

18%

28%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 33% (7 / 39 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 18%

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.