Live Play Data

Undying Malice

· Instant · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1719

Decks Running

784

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

52%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=190

14%

61%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 18

On curve 1% (2 / 190 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 19%

The "good card" funnel

1722 brought · 679 players

Brought to game

1722

Ever drawn

368

Reached battlefield

190

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.9pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=171) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=1160).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=159).

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 +8.7pp; 95% confidence interval +1.9pp to +15.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

417 instances

2.9%

Library

5.5%

Battlefield

48.0%

Graveyard

8.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 60 decks
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 58 decks
3 Deadpool, Trading Card 45 decks
4 Uugguu, the Omniplasm 28 decks
5 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur 25 decks
6 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 23 decks
7 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One 18 decks
8 Olinda the Oblivious 16 decks
9 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave 16 decks
10 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth 15 decks

Card text

Undying Malice

Instant

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

Foundations (FDN) · Common · Illustrated by Igor Kieryluk

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.