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Sepulchral Primordial

· Creature — Avatar · Zendikar Rising Commander (ZNC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

466

Decks Running

211

In Decks

1299

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

123 instances

3.3%

Library

24.4%

Battlefield

40.7%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Terra, Herald of Hope 49 decks
2 Kardur, Doomscourge 21 decks
3 Garland, Royal Kidnapper 8 decks
4 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 8 decks
5 Anowon, the Ruin Thief 7 decks
6 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 5 decks
7 Obeka, Brute Chronologist 5 decks
8 Captain N'ghathrod 4 decks
9 Satoru Umezawa 4 decks
10 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

467 brought · 196 players

Brought to game

467

Ever drawn

106

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 56% 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.

≥ +1.5pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=50) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=286).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=44) — 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 +14.4pp; 95% confidence interval +1.5pp to +27.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=54

54%

T6-9

37%

T10+

Median 8.5 P25 7 · P75 11 · max 14

On curve 33% (8 / 54 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

54 of 100 times cast 54%

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.