Live Play Data

Murderous Rider // Swift End

· Creature — Zombie Knight // Instant — Adventure · March of the Machine Commander (MOC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

782

Decks Running

359

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=143

10%

50%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 24

On curve 10% (12 / 143 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

782 brought · 330 players

Brought to game

782

Ever drawn

211

Reached battlefield

143

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 23% 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.

≥ -6.1pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=131) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=466).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=57).

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 +1.1pp; 95% confidence interval -6.1pp to +8.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

225 instances

10.7%

Library

14.7%

Battlefield

28.4%

Graveyard

24.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Murderous Rider

Creature — Zombie Knight

Lifelink When this creature dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library.

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Swift End

Instant — Adventure

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. You lose 2 life. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

March of the Machine Commander (MOC) · Rare · Illustrated by Josh Hass

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.