Live Play Data

Necropotence

· Enchantment · Iconic Masters (IMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1291

Decks Running

657

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

45%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=130

14%

17%

40%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 19

On curve 18% (11 / 130 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 46%

The "good card" funnel

1292 brought · 502 players

Brought to game

1292

Ever drawn

292

Reached battlefield

130

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 64% 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.

≥ +7.8pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=111) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=793).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=142).

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 +16.8pp; 95% confidence interval +7.8pp to +25.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

350 instances

2.3%

Library

23.7%

Battlefield

24.6%

Graveyard

14.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 43 decks
2 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 30 decks
3 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 24 decks
4 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 18 decks
5 Kaalia of the Vast 16 decks
6 Tymna the Weaver 16 decks
7 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 15 decks
8 Zur the Enchanter 14 decks
9 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 12 decks
10 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 11 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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.