Live Play Data

Waste Not

· Enchantment · Commander 2016 (C16)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

843

Decks Running

407

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

85%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=175

14%

19%

33%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 15

On curve 21% (24 / 175 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

The "good card" funnel

845 brought · 357 players

Brought to game

845

Ever drawn

205

Reached battlefield

175

Still on board at game end

123

Once cast, 70% 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.

≥ -3.5pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=155) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=520).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 26% (n=27).

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 +3.7pp; 95% confidence interval -3.5pp to +10.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

227 instances

3.5%

Library

54.2%

Battlefield

26.9%

Graveyard

4.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 64 decks
2 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 60 decks
3 Dr. Eggman 48 decks
4 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 40 decks
5 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 30 decks
6 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 12 decks
7 Tinybones, Trinket Thief 10 decks
8 Winter, Misanthropic Guide 10 decks
9 Blim, Comedic Genius 8 decks
10 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 8 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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.