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Murderous Rider // Swift End

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

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Times Brought

603

Decks Running

273

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

Murderous Rider

Creature — Zombie Knight

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

2 / 3

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

Final zone distribution

114 instances

8.8%

Library

21.1%

Battlefield

26.3%

Graveyard

20.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 102 decks
2 Temmet, Naktamun's Will 38 decks
3 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir 30 decks
4 The Scarab God 8 decks
5 Varina, Lich Queen 7 decks
6 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 5 decks
7 Prosper, Tome-Bound 4 decks
8 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin 3 decks
9 Ghoulcaller Gisa 3 decks
10 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

603 brought · 252 players

Brought to game

603

Ever drawn

109

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 32% 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.

≥ -7.9pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=51) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=334).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=23).

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 -0.6pp; 95% confidence interval -7.9pp to +6.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=76

14%

13%

17%

42%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.5 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 20% (11 / 76 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

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.