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Necropotence

· Enchantment · Iconic Masters (IMA)

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Times Brought

1819

Decks Running

891

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

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

Final zone distribution

388 instances

2.6%

Library

33.5%

Battlefield

16.0%

Graveyard

9.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edgar Markov 68 decks
2 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 54 decks
3 Kaalia of the Vast 34 decks
4 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 29 decks
5 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 28 decks
6 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh 25 decks
7 Zur the Enchanter 22 decks
8 Marrow-Gnawer 16 decks
9 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 14 decks
10 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 14 decks

The "good card" funnel

1819 brought · 674 players

Brought to game

1819

Ever drawn

337

Reached battlefield

167

Still on board at game end

130

Once cast, 78% 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.

≥ -1.2pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=129) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=981).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=127).

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 +3.3pp; 95% confidence interval -1.2pp to +7.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=167

13%

21%

16%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 26% (13 / 167 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

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.