Live Play Data

Zul Ashur, Lich Lord

· Legendary Creature — Zombie Warlock · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1069

Decks Running

479

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

79%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=257

21%

12%

10%

11%

28%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 30

On curve 29% (54 / 257 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

1075 brought · 438 players

Brought to game

1075

Ever drawn

279

Reached battlefield

221

Still on board at game end

112

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ -1.4pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=197) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=655).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=50).

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 +5.0pp; 95% confidence interval -1.4pp to +11.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

300 instances

2.0%

Library

37.3%

Battlefield

35.7%

Graveyard

9.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ghoulcaller Gisa 168 decks
2 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 70 decks
3 Varina, Lich Queen 47 decks
4 Temmet, Naktamun's Will 29 decks
5 The Scarab God 24 decks
6 Olag and Miau, New Friends 21 decks
7 Gisa and Geralf 15 decks
8 The Ghoul, Gunslinger 15 decks
9 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer 10 decks
10 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born 8 decks

Card text

Zul Ashur, Lich Lord

Legendary Creature — Zombie Warlock

Ward—Pay 2 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 2 life.) {T}

: You may cast target Zombie creature card from your graveyard this turn.

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Foundations (FDN) · Rare · Illustrated by Raluca Marinescu

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 750,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.