Live Play Data

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

· Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor · Dominaria United (DMU)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

4040

Decks Running

1680

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1081

13%

18%

15%

40%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 17

On curve 38% (194 / 1081 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

4043 brought · 1226 players

Brought to game

4043

Ever drawn

1153

Reached battlefield

866

Still on board at game end

440

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ +7.5pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=798) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=2405).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=249).

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 +10.9pp; 95% confidence interval +7.5pp to +14.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1257 instances

2.9%

Library

35.0%

Battlefield

29.5%

Graveyard

13.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 133 decks
2 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 107 decks
3 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 103 decks
4 Sauron, the Dark Lord 67 decks
5 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 66 decks
6 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel 59 decks
7 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 42 decks
8 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 36 decks
9 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 29 decks
10 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 24 decks

Card text

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor

Deathtouch Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life. Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

4 / 5

Dominaria United (DMU) · Mythic · Illustrated by Chris Rahn

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.