Live Play Data

Silumgar, the Drifting Death

· Legendary Creature — Dragon · Commander 2017 (C17)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

379

Decks Running

168

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=57

23%

49%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 46% (8 / 57 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

379 brought · 159 players

Brought to game

379

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% 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.

≥ -5.2pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=49) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=231).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 19% (n=34).

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 +8.5pp; 95% confidence interval -5.2pp to +22.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

99 instances

4.0%

Library

30.3%

Battlefield

31.3%

Graveyard

7.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 123 decks
2 Sivitri, Dragon Master 10 decks
3 Tiamat 10 decks
4 Indominus Rex, Alpha 8 decks
5 Scion of the Ur-Dragon 7 decks
6 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 2 decks
7 Etrata, Deadly Fugitive 1 decks
8 Glarb, Calamity's Augur 1 decks
9 Jodah, Archmage Eternal 1 decks
10 Jodah, the Unifier 1 decks

Card text

Silumgar, the Drifting Death

Legendary Creature — Dragon

Flying, hexproof Whenever a Dragon you control attacks, creatures defending player controls get -1/-1 until end of turn.

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Commander 2017 (C17) · Rare · Illustrated by Steven Belledin

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.