Live Play Data

Pawn of Ulamog

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

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1647

Decks Running

781

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=275

16%

15%

42%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 23

On curve 18% (45 / 275 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

1652 brought · 706 players

Brought to game

1652

Ever drawn

389

Reached battlefield

275

Still on board at game end

109

Once cast, 40% 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.

≥ +1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=265) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=1122).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=107).

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 +6.7pp; 95% confidence interval +1.1pp to +12.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

432 instances

1.9%

Library

25.2%

Battlefield

42.4%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 172 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 131 decks
3 Teysa Karlov 73 decks
4 Edgar Markov 48 decks
5 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 28 decks
6 Syr Konrad, the Grim 14 decks
7 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician 14 decks
8 Azlask, the Swelling Scourge 13 decks
9 Braids, Arisen Nightmare 13 decks
10 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 13 decks

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

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.