Live Play Data

Waste Not

· Enchantment · Commander 2016 (C16)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1167

Decks Running

553

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

81%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=227

15%

19%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 21% (34 / 227 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

1169 brought · 481 players

Brought to game

1169

Ever drawn

280

Reached battlefield

227

Still on board at game end

164

Once cast, 72% 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.

≥ -2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=206) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=732).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=49).

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 +4.0pp; 95% confidence interval -2.2pp to +10.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

308 instances

3.6%

Library

53.2%

Battlefield

25.3%

Graveyard

4.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 89 decks
2 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 79 decks
3 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 60 decks
4 Dr. Eggman 57 decks
5 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 37 decks
6 Tinybones, Trinket Thief 17 decks
7 Blim, Comedic Genius 16 decks
8 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 16 decks
9 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer 11 decks
10 Winter, Misanthropic Guide 10 decks

Card text

Waste Not

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent discards a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Whenever an opponent discards a land card, add {B}

. Whenever an opponent discards a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Commander 2016 (C16) · Rare · Illustrated by Matt Stewart

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.