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Sheoldred, Whispering One

· Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor · Jumpstart (JMP)

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Times Brought

651

Decks Running

339

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, 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

183 instances

1.6%

Library

43.7%

Battlefield

25.1%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 13 decks
2 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 11 decks
3 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 10 decks
4 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 9 decks
5 Satoru Umezawa 9 decks
6 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 8 decks
7 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 7 decks
8 Sefris of the Hidden Ways 7 decks
9 Teval, the Balanced Scale 7 decks
10 Braids, Arisen Nightmare 6 decks

The "good card" funnel

651 brought · 297 players

Brought to game

651

Ever drawn

162

Reached battlefield

114

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 70% 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.

≥ +3.5pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=95) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=346).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=33).

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 +9.1pp; 95% confidence interval +3.5pp to +14.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=116

10%

15%

58%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 18

On curve 59% (17 / 116 cast on T7) Cast same turn as drawn 44%

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.