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Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

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

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Times Brought

735

Decks Running

424

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

232 instances

3.0%

Library

46.6%

Battlefield

19.4%

Graveyard

10.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 43 decks
2 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 37 decks
3 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 28 decks
4 Sauron, the Dark Lord 25 decks
5 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls 23 decks
6 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 21 decks
7 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic 11 decks
8 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 10 decks
9 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 7 decks
10 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

736 brought · 356 players

Brought to game

736

Ever drawn

162

Reached battlefield

129

Still on board at game end

108

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.

≥ -0.1pp

Players who cast this card win 29% of the time (n=111) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=389).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=27) — 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 +5.1pp; 95% confidence interval -0.1pp to +10.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=129

12%

21%

19%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 38% (27 / 129 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

1247 of 300 tracked games 99%

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.