Live Play Data

Waste Not

· Enchantment · Commander 2016 (C16)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

551

Decks Running

277

Median Cast Turn

4.5

Drawn → Played

84%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=118

12%

17%

12%

31%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 4.5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 21% (14 / 118 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 49%

The "good card" funnel

553 brought · 243 players

Brought to game

553

Ever drawn

140

Reached battlefield

118

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 69% 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.

≥ +0.9pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=104) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=341).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=18).

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 +10.2pp; 95% confidence interval +0.9pp to +19.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

152 instances

2.6%

Library

53.3%

Battlefield

26.3%

Graveyard

5.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 43 decks
2 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 36 decks
3 Dr. Eggman 34 decks
4 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 26 decks
5 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 26 decks
6 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 10 decks
7 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 7 decks
8 Tinybones, Trinket Thief 7 decks
9 Winter, Misanthropic Guide 7 decks
10 Blim, Comedic Genius 6 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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.