Live Play Data

Putrid Imp

· Creature — Zombie Imp · Vintage Masters (VMA)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

393

Decks Running

160

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=74

15%

12%

35%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 9% (7 / 74 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 51%

The "good card" funnel

393 brought · 154 players

Brought to game

393

Ever drawn

105

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 61% 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.

≥ +1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=65) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=222).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 43% (n=30).

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 +13.5pp; 95% confidence interval +1.1pp to +25.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

127 instances

3.9%

Library

35.4%

Battlefield

37.8%

Graveyard

9.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 48 decks
2 Greasefang, Okiba Boss 16 decks
3 The Gitrog Monster 12 decks
4 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 10 decks
5 Baron Helmut Zemo 7 decks
6 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 6 decks
7 Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer 5 decks
8 Sefris of the Hidden Ways 4 decks
9 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 3 decks
10 The Necrobloom 3 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 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.