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Pawn of Ulamog

· Creature — Vampire Shaman · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

436

Decks Running

257

In Decks

1636

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Pawn of Ulamog

Creature — Vampire Shaman

Whenever this creature or another nontoken creature you control dies, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Daarken

Final zone distribution

122 instances

23.0%

Battlefield

45.9%

Graveyard

7.4%

Exile

23.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 78 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 38 decks
3 Teysa Karlov 22 decks
4 Edgar Markov 15 decks
5 Braids, Arisen Nightmare 5 decks
6 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 5 decks
7 Gorma, the Gullet 4 decks
8 Super Shredder 4 decks
9 Syr Konrad, the Grim 4 decks
10 Ares, God of War 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

441 brought · 240 players

Brought to game

441

Ever drawn

109

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 36% 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.

≥ -10.3pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=71) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=270).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 48% (n=26) — 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 +0.6pp; 95% confidence interval -10.3pp to +11.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=78

17%

15%

18%

37%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 22

On curve 19% (13 / 78 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

78 of 100 times cast 78%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.