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Persistent Constrictor

· Creature — Zombie Snake · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)

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Times Brought

330

Decks Running

199

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

Persistent Constrictor

Creature — Zombie Snake

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, they lose 1 life and you put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature they control. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

5 / 3

Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Steve Ellis

Final zone distribution

60 instances

30.0%

Battlefield

28.3%

Graveyard

3.3%

Exile

38.3%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 105 decks
2 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch 27 decks
3 Aphelia, Viper Whisperer 12 decks
4 Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons 8 decks
5 Maha, Its Feathers Night 5 decks
6 The Reaper, King No More 5 decks
7 Volrath, the Shapestealer 5 decks
8 Blech, Loafing Pest 2 decks
9 Celes, Rune Knight 2 decks
10 Ghoulcaller Gisa 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

330 brought · 190 players

Brought to game

330

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 62% 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.

≥ -5.7pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=23) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=194).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=18).

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 +5.0pp; 95% confidence interval -5.7pp to +15.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=29

10%

24%

52%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 41% (7 / 29 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.