Live Play Data

The Scarab God

· Legendary Creature — God · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

674

Decks Running

244

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

58%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=189

11%

25%

50%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 18

On curve 42% (48 / 189 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

674 brought · 221 players

Brought to game

674

Ever drawn

178

Reached battlefield

104

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ +1.8pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=99) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=396).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=69).

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 +10.9pp; 95% confidence interval +1.8pp to +20.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

218 instances

5.0%

Library

24.8%

Battlefield

28.0%

Graveyard

8.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Teval, the Balanced Scale 54 decks
2 Temmet, Naktamun's Will 45 decks
3 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 32 decks
4 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist 23 decks
5 Varina, Lich Queen 20 decks
6 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 10 decks
7 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 8 decks
8 Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant 6 decks
9 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant 5 decks
10 Gisa and Geralf 4 decks

Card text

The Scarab God

Legendary Creature — God

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses X life and you scry X, where X is the number of Zombies you control. {2}

: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie. When The Scarab God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.

5 / 5

Commander Masters (CMM) · Mythic · Illustrated by Lius Lasahido

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 seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.