Live Play Data

Wake the Dead

· Instant · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

208

Decks Running

102

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

38%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=16

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

208 brought · 97 players

Brought to game

208

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -17.4pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=15) , vs 24% when it never left the library (n=141).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 38% (n=26).

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 +6.1pp; 95% confidence interval -17.4pp to +29.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

54 instances

3.7%

Library

5.6%

Battlefield

48.1%

Graveyard

42.6%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Wake the Dead

Instant

Cast this spell only during combat on an opponent's turn. Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. Sacrifice those creatures at the beginning of the next end step.

Commander Masters (CMM) · Rare · Illustrated by Christopher Moeller

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.