Live Play Data

Necromantic Selection

· Sorcery · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

416

Decks Running

194

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

48%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=47

68%

T6-9

21%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 43% (7 / 47 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

416 brought · 186 players

Brought to game

416

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=44) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=223).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=43).

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 +11.3pp; 95% confidence interval -2.4pp to +25.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

140 instances

2.1%

Library

2.1%

Battlefield

52.9%

Graveyard

12.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Necromantic Selection

Sorcery

Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Dave Kendall

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.