Live Play Data

Sepulchral Primordial

· Creature — Avatar · Zendikar Rising Commander (ZNC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

628

Decks Running

297

Median Cast Turn

8.0

Drawn → Played

51%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=74

58%

T6-9

34%

T10+

Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 10 · max 14

On curve 34% (12 / 74 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 22%

The "good card" funnel

629 brought · 281 players

Brought to game

629

Ever drawn

146

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 55% 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.

≥ +3.1pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=69) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=382).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=64).

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 +13.7pp; 95% confidence interval +3.1pp to +24.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

174 instances

5.2%

Library

23.6%

Battlefield

40.8%

Graveyard

4.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 63 decks
2 Kardur, Doomscourge 28 decks
3 Garland, Royal Kidnapper 14 decks
4 Anowon, the Ruin Thief 10 decks
5 Satoru Umezawa 10 decks
6 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 8 decks
7 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 6 decks
8 Obeka, Brute Chronologist 6 decks
9 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 6 decks
10 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 5 decks

Card text

Sepulchral Primordial

Creature — Avatar

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) When this creature enters, for each opponent, you may put up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

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Zendikar Rising Commander (ZNC) · Rare · Illustrated by Stephan Martiniere

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.