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Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

· Legendary Creature — Zombie Cleric · Commander Masters (CMM)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

276

Decks Running

175

In Decks

1314

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

Legendary Creature — Zombie Cleric

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) Whenever a Human deals damage to you, destroy it. Other non-Human creatures you control get +1/+1 and have undying. (When a creature with undying dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

5 / 5

Commander Masters (CMM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Chris Rahn

Final zone distribution

74 instances

1.4%

Library

20.3%

Battlefield

31.1%

Graveyard

13.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 26 decks
2 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 19 decks
3 The Scarab God 10 decks
4 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 8 decks
5 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 8 decks
6 Varina, Lich Queen 6 decks
7 Gisa and Geralf 5 decks
8 Marchesa, the Black Rose 5 decks
9 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed 5 decks
10 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 5 decks

The "good card" funnel

276 brought · 158 players

Brought to game

276

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 34% 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.

≥ +4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=35) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=181).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=22) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +20.7pp; 95% confidence interval +4.7pp to +36.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=38

18%

50%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 39% (2 / 38 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

38 of 100 times cast 38%

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.