Live Play Data

Plague Belcher

· Creature — Zombie Beast · Amonkhet (AKH)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

302

Decks Running

143

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=40

10%

45%

T6-9

25%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 10 · max 30

On curve 15% (2 / 40 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 37%

The "good card" funnel

302 brought · 135 players

Brought to game

302

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -11.4pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=34) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=195).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=20).

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 +3.6pp; 95% confidence interval -11.4pp to +18.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

74 instances

1.4%

Library

27.0%

Battlefield

39.2%

Graveyard

9.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Plague Belcher

Creature — Zombie Beast

Menace When this creature enters, put two -1/-1 counters on target creature you control. Whenever another Zombie you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

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Amonkhet (AKH) · Rare · Illustrated by Izzy

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.