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Pawn of Ulamog

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

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Times Brought

925

Decks Running

466

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

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

187 instances

1.1%

Library

34.2%

Battlefield

36.9%

Graveyard

3.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 146 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 76 decks
3 Teysa Karlov 34 decks
4 Edgar Markov 29 decks
5 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 8 decks
6 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 8 decks
7 Azlask, the Swelling Scourge 7 decks
8 Braids, Arisen Nightmare 7 decks
9 Gorma, the Gullet 6 decks
10 Syr Konrad, the Grim 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

926 brought · 434 players

Brought to game

926

Ever drawn

174

Reached battlefield

122

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ -2.0pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=83) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=486).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=43).

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 +3.8pp; 95% confidence interval -2.0pp to +9.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=122

10%

12%

20%

37%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 19

On curve 19% (12 / 122 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.