Live Play Data

Welcome the Dead

· Sorcery · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

195

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

7.5

Drawn → Played

55%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=28

14%

64%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 7.5 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 11% (2 / 28 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 39%

The "good card" funnel

195 brought · 82 players

Brought to game

195

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +4.4pp

Players who cast this card win 37% of the time (n=26) , vs 15% when it never left the library (n=91).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 36% (n=20).

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 +21.4pp; 95% confidence interval +4.4pp to +38.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

80 instances

1.3%

Library

62.5%

Graveyard

12.5%

Exile

23.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Welcome the Dead

Sorcery

Draw two cards, then discard a card and you lose 2 life. Create X tapped 2/2 black Zombie Druid creature tokens, where X is the number of cards that were put into your graveyard from your hand or library this turn. Flashback {5}

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Ioannis Fiore

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.