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Ulamog, the Defiler

{10} · Legendary Creature — Eldrazi · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)
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Times Brought
1102
Decks Running
516
In Decks
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Decklist Inclusion
—
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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Ulamog, the Defiler card

Ulamog, the Defiler

{10}
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) · Mythic · Illustrated by Chase Stone

Final zone distribution

271 instances
5.9%
Library
45.8%
Battlefield
8.9%
Graveyard
8.9%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

1102 brought · 463 players
Brought to game
1102
Ever drawn
252
Reached battlefield
157
Still on board at game end
124

Once cast, 79% 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.

≥ +6.8pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=112) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=572).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=68).

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 +11.3pp; 95% confidence interval +6.8pp to +15.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=169
1%
T1
2%
T2
5%
T3
5%
T4
18%
T5
56%
T6-9
14%
T10+
Median 6 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 13
On curve 95% (15 / 169 cast on T10) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

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.