Live Play Data

Noxious Ghoul

· Creature — Zombie · Planechase (HOP)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

643

Decks Running

294

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=81

10%

11%

59%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 26% (9 / 81 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

643 brought · 272 players

Brought to game

643

Ever drawn

144

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 38% 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.

≥ +7.7pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=75) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=408).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=55).

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 +18.8pp; 95% confidence interval +7.7pp to +29.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

154 instances

2.6%

Library

20.1%

Battlefield

36.4%

Graveyard

9.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Noxious Ghoul

Creature — Zombie

Whenever this creature or another Zombie enters, all non-Zombie creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

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Planechase (HOP) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Luca Zontini

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.