Live Play Data

Putrid Imp

· Creature — Zombie Imp · Vintage Masters (VMA)

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Times Brought

202

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

69%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=37

19%

16%

41%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 2 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 19% (7 / 37 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 59%

The "good card" funnel

202 brought · 84 players

Brought to game

202

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.

≥ -12.6pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=32) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=108).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 55% (n=16).

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 +4.1pp; 95% confidence interval -12.6pp to +20.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

67 instances

34.3%

Battlefield

38.8%

Graveyard

11.9%

Exile

14.9%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 27 decks
2 Greasefang, Okiba Boss 6 decks
3 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 5 decks
4 The Gitrog Monster 5 decks
5 Baron Helmut Zemo 4 decks
6 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 4 decks
7 Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer 3 decks
8 Sefris of the Hidden Ways 3 decks
9 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 2 decks
10 Varina, Lich Queen 2 decks

Card text

Putrid Imp

Creature — Zombie Imp

Discard a card: This creature gains flying until end of turn. Threshold — As long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, this creature gets +1/+1 and can't block.

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Vintage Masters (VMA) · Common · Illustrated by Wayne England

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.