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Necromantic Selection

· Sorcery · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

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Times Brought

359

Decks Running

177

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

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

Final zone distribution

84 instances

1.2%

Library

1.2%

Battlefield

39.3%

Graveyard

22.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

359 brought · 166 players

Brought to game

359

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -13.0pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=18) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=189).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=20).

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 -0.7pp; 95% confidence interval -13.0pp to +11.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=27

67%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 8 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 48% (4 / 27 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 33%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.