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Sheoldred, Whispering One

· Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor · Jumpstart (JMP)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

547

Decks Running

271

In Decks

2066

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

178 instances

3.4%

Library

31.5%

Battlefield

27.0%

Graveyard

12.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Satoru Umezawa 11 decks
2 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 9 decks
3 Obeka, Splitter of Seconds 8 decks
4 Sauron, the Dark Lord 8 decks
5 Omnath, Locus of All 6 decks
6 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 6 decks
7 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 5 decks
8 Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic 5 decks
9 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 4 decks
10 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 4 decks

The "good card" funnel

550 brought · 241 players

Brought to game

550

Ever drawn

155

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 57% 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.

≥ +5.4pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=90) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=321).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=55) — 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 +15.4pp; 95% confidence interval +5.4pp to +25.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=96

17%

65%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 64% (17 / 96 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 23%

96 of 100 times cast 96%

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 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.