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Game Changer
on the MTG Commander Game Changers list
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Enchantment
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Iconic Masters (IMA)
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Necropotence
2%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
407
Decks Running
230
In Decks
2058
Decklist Inclusion
2%
Format
Final zone distribution
102 instances25.5%
Battlefield
23.5%
Graveyard
10.8%
Exile
40.2%
Hand
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Edgar Markov
11 decks
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2
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
9 decks
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3
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
9 decks
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4
Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
7 decks
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5
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
7 decks
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6
Zur the Enchanter
6 decks
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7
Kaalia of the Vast
5 decks
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8
Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin
4 decks
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9
Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
4 decks
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10
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
4 decks
The "good card" funnel
408 brought · 185 playersBrought to game
408
Ever drawn
89
Reached battlefield
40
Still on board at game end
26
Once cast, 65% 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.
≥ -8.6pp
Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=37) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=276).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=45) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.
Observed gap +7.3pp; 95% confidence interval -8.6pp to +23.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=40
10%
T1
3%
T2
10%
T3
10%
T4
28%
T5
25%
T6-9
15%
T10+
Median
5.0
P25
4
· P75
7
· max
19
On curve
23%
(4 / 40 cast on T3)
Cast same turn as drawn
45%
40 of 100 times cast
40%
Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.
Frequently Asked
Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 630,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.