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Part of Modern Horizons 3
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Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
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Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)
Live Play Data
Ulamog, the Defiler
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Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
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Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
839
Decks Running
359
Median Cast Turn
7.0
Drawn → Played
64%
Format
First-cast turn
n=142
0%
T1
1%
T2
2%
T3
8%
T4
18%
T5
63%
T6-9
8%
T10+
Median
7.0
P25
5
· P75
8
· max
14
On curve
96%
(6 / 142 cast on T10)
Cast same turn as drawn
39%
The "good card" funnel
839 brought · 324 playersBrought to game
839
Ever drawn
209
Reached battlefield
134
Still on board at game end
95
Once cast, 71% 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.
≥ +7.0pp
Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=122) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=528).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=65).
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 +15.5pp; 95% confidence interval +7.0pp to +24.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
232 instances5.6%
Library
40.9%
Battlefield
15.1%
Graveyard
10.8%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games- 1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger 65 decks
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2
Ulalek, Fused Atrocity
52 decks
- 3 Molecule Man 28 decks
- 4 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion 18 decks
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5
The Notary Hobbits
15 decks
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6
Animar, Soul of Elements
11 decks
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7
The Infamous Cruelclaw
9 decks
- 8 Kozilek, the Great Distortion 7 decks
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9
Rakdos, Lord of Riots
7 decks
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10
Flubs, the Fool
6 decks
Card text
Ulamog, the Defiler
Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
When you cast this spell, target opponent exiles the top half of their library, rounded up.
Ward—Sacrifice two permanents.
Ulamog enters with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the greatest mana value among cards in exile.
Ulamog has annihilator X, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on it.
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Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)
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Mythic
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Illustrated by Chase Stone
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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.