Live Play Data

Undead Warchief

· Creature — Zombie · Planechase (HOP)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

929

Decks Running

414

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

72%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=152

17%

12%

52%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 17

On curve 28% (26 / 152 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 30%

The "good card" funnel

929 brought · 387 players

Brought to game

929

Ever drawn

210

Reached battlefield

152

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 55% 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.

≥ +3.1pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=138) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=593).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=57).

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 +11.0pp; 95% confidence interval +3.1pp to +18.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

231 instances

2.2%

Library

35.9%

Battlefield

32.5%

Graveyard

7.4%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghoulcaller Gisa 147 decks
2 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 53 decks
3 The Scarab God 32 decks
4 Varina, Lich Queen 32 decks
5 Temmet, Naktamun's Will 17 decks
6 Gisa and Geralf 14 decks
7 Gisa, the Hellraiser 11 decks
8 Zul Ashur, Lich Lord 9 decks
9 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born 7 decks
10 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer 7 decks

Card text

Undead Warchief

Creature — Zombie

Zombie spells you cast cost {1}

less to cast. Zombie creatures you control get +2/+1.

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Planechase (HOP) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Greg Hildebrandt

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.