Live Play Data

Sheoldred, Whispering One

· Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor · Jumpstart (JMP)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1171

Decks Running

522

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

65%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=225

16%

62%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 62% (42 / 225 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

1174 brought · 451 players

Brought to game

1174

Ever drawn

343

Reached battlefield

224

Still on board at game end

124

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.

≥ +9.6pp

Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=216) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=675).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (n=106).

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 +16.3pp; 95% confidence interval +9.6pp to +23.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

382 instances

3.1%

Library

32.5%

Battlefield

28.0%

Graveyard

11.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 23 decks
2 Satoru Umezawa 17 decks
3 Sauron, the Dark Lord 17 decks
4 Obeka, Splitter of Seconds 16 decks
5 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 13 decks
6 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 12 decks
7 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 10 decks
8 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 10 decks
9 Teval, the Balanced Scale 10 decks
10 The Wandering Minstrel 10 decks

Card text

Sheoldred, Whispering One

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

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Jumpstart (JMP) · Mythic · Illustrated by Jana Schirmer & Johannes Voss

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.