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Plaguecrafter

· Creature — Human Shaman · Ravnica Remastered (RVR)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

579

Decks Running

350

In Decks

2653

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Plaguecrafter

Creature — Human Shaman

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.

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Ravnica Remastered (RVR) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Anna Steinbauer

Final zone distribution

164 instances

1.2%

Library

10.4%

Battlefield

53.0%

Graveyard

9.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 40 decks
2 Hazel of the Rootbloom 29 decks
3 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 20 decks
4 Vren, the Relentless 20 decks
5 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 16 decks
6 Squall, SeeD Mercenary 14 decks
7 Terra, Herald of Hope 11 decks
8 Sefris of the Hidden Ways 9 decks
9 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast 9 decks
10 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

583 brought · 325 players

Brought to game

583

Ever drawn

142

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 17% 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.

≥ -5.5pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=91) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=358).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=36) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +4.0pp; 95% confidence interval -5.5pp to +13.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=99

14%

15%

47%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 7% (6 / 99 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

99 of 100 times cast 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.