Live Play Data

Necropotence

· Enchantment · Iconic Masters (IMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2698

Decks Running

1191

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

47%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=273

12%

16%

40%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 19

On curve 23% (32 / 273 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

The "good card" funnel

2699 brought · 866 players

Brought to game

2699

Ever drawn

581

Reached battlefield

273

Still on board at game end

187

Once cast, 69% 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.

≥ +7.3pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=238) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=1701).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 33% (n=272).

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 +13.4pp; 95% confidence interval +7.3pp to +19.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

705 instances

2.0%

Library

26.5%

Battlefield

27.0%

Graveyard

12.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 75 decks
2 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 49 decks
3 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 42 decks
4 Kaalia of the Vast 35 decks
5 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 32 decks
6 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 30 decks
7 Zur the Enchanter 28 decks
8 Tymna the Weaver 24 decks
9 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 23 decks
10 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 19 decks

Card text

Necropotence

Enchantment

Skip your draw step. Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Iconic Masters (IMA) · Mythic · 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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.