Live Play Data

Warren Soultrader

· Creature — Zombie Goblin Wizard · Modern Horizons 3 (MH3)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

872

Decks Running

469

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Warren Soultrader posts a 43% win rate when cast across 120 tracked participations, a +16.2 percentage-point lift over games where it stayed in the library, making it one of the stronger performance signals in Playgroup Live's black creature data.

Warren Soultrader converts creatures and life into Treasure tokens, and the play-data backs up its reputation as a value engine. Across 832 tracked multiplayer Commander games on Playgroup Live, decks that resolved Soultrader won at 43%, compared to 26% for participations where it never left the library. That +16.2 pp gap is a directional signal worth taking seriously, though both sample sizes should be kept in context.

The card sits in 469 of 8560 tracked decks, an inclusion rate of 5%. That is a specialist number, not a staple number. Players who include it tend to build around the sacrifice-and-ramp loop deliberately, and the commander distribution bears that out: Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER, Chatterfang, and Wilhelt head the list, all archetypes that want a repeatable sacrifice outlet at three mana. The data is well-spread across 402 distinct players, with the single heaviest contributor accounting for just 2% of all instances, which is a healthy signal for the reliability of the aggregate.

Warren Soultrader is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Historic. It was printed in Modern Horizons 3 at rare. It is not legal in Standard, Pioneer, Pauper, or Pauper Commander.

At a glance

5% of tracked Commander decks include Warren Soultrader
43% win rate in games where Soultrader reached the battlefield
+16.2pp win-rate lift over games where it stayed in the library
T6 median first-cast turn
63% of drawn copies were cast before the game ended
58% battlefield stickiness once cast

First-cast turn

n=131

15%

12%

16%

49%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 19% (20 / 131 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

874 brought · 402 players

Brought to game

874

Ever drawn

208

Reached battlefield

131

Still on board at game end

63%

Of 874 Warren Soultraders brought to games, 208 were drawn, 131 of those were cast, and just over half remained on the battlefield through end of game.

≥ +7.6pp

Players who cast this card win 43% of the time (n=120) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=544).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=72) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +16.2pp; 95% confidence interval +7.6pp to +24.8pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

236 instances

2.5%

Library

32.2%

Battlefield

29.7%

Graveyard

9.7%

Exile

Most tracked Soultrader copies finish in the graveyard or on the battlefield, with the library being a rare final destination, reflecting how actively players move and sacrifice this creature during a game.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel 39 decks
2 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 21 decks
3 Marneus Calgar 19 decks
4 Sauron, the Dark Lord 18 decks
5 Teysa Karlov 14 decks
6 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 14 decks
7 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 12 decks
8 Teval, the Balanced Scale 12 decks
9 Shadow the Hedgehog 11 decks
10 Marchesa, the Black Rose 10 decks

The commander list spans mono-black, Golgari, Dimir, and Esper shells, but the throughline is consistent: each archetype wants a low-cost, repeatable sacrifice outlet that also generates mana.

Card text

Warren Soultrader

Creature — Zombie Goblin Wizard

Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with " {T}

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

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Modern Horizons 3 (MH3) · Rare · Illustrated by Pete Venters

Frequently Asked

How often is Warren Soultrader drawn and cast in a Commander game?

Across 832 tracked multiplayer games, Warren Soultrader was drawn 24% of the time, consistent with singleton odds in a 100-card deck. Of the 208 times it reached a player's hand, 63% of those copies were cast before the game ended. The median turn of first cast is 6, with the distribution spreading from turn 3 through turn 8 for the middle 50% of observations.

Does casting Warren Soultrader actually improve your chances of winning?

The data shows a directional positive signal. Games where Soultrader was cast resolved at a 43% win rate across 120 participations. Games where it remained in the library resolved at 26% across 544 participations. That is a +16.2 pp gap. The confidence interval does not rule out noise at the low end, so treat this as an early positive signal rather than a definitive proof of impact.

Which commanders most commonly run Warren Soultrader?

Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER leads the list with the most decks, followed by Chatterfang, Squirrel General, Marneus Calgar, and Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver. The pattern is consistent: commanders that want a repeatable sacrifice outlet to feed graveyard synergies, token doubling, or artifact payoffs. Korvold, Fae-Cursed King also appears, leveraging the Treasure generation for draw triggers.

How sticky is Warren Soultrader once it lands on the battlefield?

58% of cast Soultraders were still on the battlefield at the end of the tracked game segment. That is a moderate stickiness number. As a 3-mana creature with no built-in protection, it draws removal in competitive pods, and its sacrifice engine means players may also choose to sacrifice it to itself in a pinch. The graveyard is the second most common final zone after the battlefield.

Is Warren Soultrader legal in Commander and other formats?

Yes. Warren Soultrader is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, and Gladiator. It is not legal in Standard, Pioneer, Pauper, or Pauper Commander. It was printed in Modern Horizons 3 at rare, which is what drives its Modern legality. No bans are currently in place in any format where it is legal.

How concentrated is Warren Soultrader's data among a few players?

The data is well-distributed. 402 distinct players have brought Warren Soultrader to a tracked game on Playgroup Live, and the single heaviest contributor accounts for only 2% of all instances. That spread across a broad player pool strengthens confidence in the aggregate win-rate and cast-turn figures, even if the absolute sample sizes remain modest.