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Part of Commander Masters
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Legendary Creature — God
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Commander Masters (CMM)
Live Play Data
The Scarab God
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Legendary Creature — God
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Commander Masters (CMM)
3%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
1147
Decks Running
409
Median Cast Turn
6
Drawn → Played
62%
Format
First-cast turn
n=349
0%
T1
0%
T2
3%
T3
9%
T4
23%
T5
55%
T6-9
10%
T10+
Median
6
P25
5
· P75
8
· max
18
On curve
35%
(79 / 349 cast on T5)
Cast same turn as drawn
32%
The "good card" funnel
1147 brought · 366 playersBrought to game
1147
Ever drawn
318
Reached battlefield
196
Still on board at game end
109
Once cast, 56% 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.
≥ +4.1pp
Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=178) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=662).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=115).
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 +11.1pp; 95% confidence interval +4.1pp to +18.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
387 instances4.7%
Library
28.2%
Battlefield
29.7%
Graveyard
8.3%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Temmet, Naktamun's Will
78 decks
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2
Teval, the Balanced Scale
72 decks
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3
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
52 decks
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4
Varina, Lich Queen
44 decks
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5
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
37 decks
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6
Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen
19 decks
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7
Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
12 decks
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8
Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge
11 decks
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9
Gisa and Geralf
11 decks
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10
Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
6 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.
: 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.
: 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)
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Mythic
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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 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.