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Waste Not

· Enchantment · Commander 2016 (C16)

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Times Brought

648

Decks Running

348

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

151 instances

1.3%

Library

54.3%

Battlefield

23.8%

Graveyard

4.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer 73 decks
2 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 39 decks
3 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 37 decks
4 Dr. Eggman 28 decks
5 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 23 decks
6 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 9 decks
7 Tinybones, Trinket Thief 9 decks
8 Winter, Misanthropic Guide 9 decks
9 Blim, Comedic Genius 8 decks
10 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer 8 decks

The "good card" funnel

648 brought · 325 players

Brought to game

648

Ever drawn

140

Reached battlefield

100

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 82% 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.

≥ -4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=76) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=358).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 22% (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 +1.5pp; 95% confidence interval -4.7pp to +7.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=100

12%

11%

21%

12%

29%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 3 · P75 6 · max 11

On curve 23% (11 / 100 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 50%

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.