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Plague Belcher
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Creature — Zombie Beast
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Amonkhet (AKH)
Times Brought
253
Decks Running
113
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
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Format
Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.
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.
5 / 4
Amonkhet (AKH)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Izzy
Final zone distribution
57 instances1.8%
Library
42.1%
Battlefield
29.8%
Graveyard
1.8%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
34 decks
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2
Temmet, Naktamun's Will
32 decks
-
3
Ghoulcaller Gisa
10 decks
-
4
Varina, Lich Queen
8 decks
-
5
The Scarab God
6 decks
-
6
Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
4 decks
-
7
Gisa and Geralf
3 decks
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8
Joel, Resolute Survivor
2 decks
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9
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
2 decks
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10
Narfi, Betrayer King
2 decks
The "good card" funnel
253 brought · 102 playersBrought to game
253
Ever drawn
55
Reached battlefield
33
Still on board at game end
24
Once cast, 73% 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.
≥ -15.4pp
Players who cast this card win 16% of the time (n=28) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=148).
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 -5.7pp; 95% confidence interval -15.4pp to +4.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=33
6%
T1
0%
T2
18%
T3
9%
T4
6%
T5
48%
T6-9
12%
T10+
Median
6
P25
4
· P75
9
· max
14
On curve
24%
(6 / 33 cast on T3)
Cast same turn as drawn
42%
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.