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Umbral Collar Zealot

· Creature — Human Cleric · Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)

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Times Brought

835

Decks Running

442

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

Umbral Collar Zealot

Creature — Human Cleric

Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

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Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Dmitry Burmak

Final zone distribution

187 instances

2.7%

Library

37.4%

Battlefield

32.6%

Graveyard

5.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 149 decks
2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 19 decks
3 Teysa Karlov 11 decks
4 Ygra, Eater of All 11 decks
5 Avacyn, Angel of Horror 10 decks
6 Meren of Clan Nel Toth 10 decks
7 Celes, Rune Knight 8 decks
8 Gwenom, Remorseless 8 decks
9 Slimefoot and Squee 8 decks
10 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar 8 decks

The "good card" funnel

836 brought · 403 players

Brought to game

836

Ever drawn

171

Reached battlefield

125

Still on board at game end

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.

≥ -5.5pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=95) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=439).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 29% (n=38).

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 +0.0pp; 95% confidence interval -5.5pp to +5.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=125

11%

13%

11%

10%

14%

35%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 16

On curve 24% (16 / 125 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

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 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.