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Ugin, the Ineffable

· Legendary Planeswalker — Ugin · Commander Masters (CMM)

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Times Brought

427

Decks Running

218

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

Ugin, the Ineffable

Legendary Planeswalker — Ugin

Colorless spells you cast cost {2}

less to cast. +1: Exile the top card of your library face down and look at it. Create a 2/2 colorless Spirit creature token. When that token leaves the battlefield, put the exiled card into your hand. −3: Destroy target permanent that's one or more colors.

Loyalty 4

Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Daarken

Final zone distribution

104 instances

3.8%

Library

46.2%

Battlefield

21.2%

Graveyard

5.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 54 decks
2 Ulalek, Fused Atrocity 49 decks
3 Molecule Man 11 decks
4 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 11 decks
5 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence 10 decks
6 Karn, Legacy Reforged 5 decks
7 Kozilek, the Great Distortion 5 decks
8 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought 4 decks
9 Kaust, Eyes of the Glade 3 decks
10 Azlask, the Swelling Scourge 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

427 brought · 203 players

Brought to game

427

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 74% 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.

≥ -1.1pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=56) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=244).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=20) — 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 +5.7pp; 95% confidence interval -1.1pp to +12.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=65

17%

22%

48%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 14

On curve 52% (8 / 65 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

65 of 100 times cast 65%

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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.