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Embalmed Ascendant DFT 0201 · uncommon

Embalmed Ascendant · {1}{W}{B} · Creature — Zombie · Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.)
When this creature enters, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Max speed — Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. · Power / toughness: 1/2

Price: from $0.221 printing
Win rate: 59.1% GIH 29,156 instances · Premier Draft
Feb 11–Mar 18, 2025 · 17Lands
Job: Enablers · Payoffs

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 17,224 wins in 29,156 card-in-hand instances.

25,272 distinct games · 7,878 distinct drafts · games recorded Feb 11–Mar 18, 2025.

17Lands file dated Mar 23, 2025 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Play

Max Speed Attrition · White–BlackMax Speed Attrition plan →

It brings a Zombie and starts speed even before the death-drain ability turns on. At max speed, expendable bodies become useful, but sacrifice effects still need their own costs and legal targets.

One-pick Draft: It brings a Zombie and starts speed even before the death-drain ability turns on. At max speed, expendable bodies become useful, but sacrifice effects still need their own costs and legal targets.
Sealed vs Draft: It brings a Zombie and starts speed even before the death-drain ability turns on. At max speed, expendable bodies become useful, but sacrifice effects still need their own costs and legal targets.

Draft data

59.1%when drawn (GIH)

+4.2 pp vs 54.9% average · 29,156 instances

Premier Draft · Feb 11–Mar 18, 2025 · average from 857,667 games

#35 of 255 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 4.7 on average (89,875 packs).

14 of 43 multicolor cards · 6 of 20 multicolor uncommon cards.

Taken at pick5.918,508 picks

Makes the deck56.8%18,508 picks with known usage

When played56.3%56,526.4 matchesBenched 55.2%
37,205.6 matches

When drawn59.1%29,156 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Feb 11–Mar 18, 2025. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 58.1% · 11,642 instances
● Drawn later 59.7% · 17,514 instances

In hand 59.1% · 29,156 instances
Unseen in deck 53.6% · 38,158 instances
+5.5 percentage points when drawn

Compared with multicolor cards

Win rate when drawn59.1%29,156 instances14 of 43

Opening hand58.1%11,642 instances14 of 43

Drawn later59.7%17,514 instances15 of 43

In the deck56.1%67,712 instances14 of 43

Without seeing it53.6%38,158 instances15 of 43

Improvement when drawn+5.5 pp29,156 instances / 38,158 instances16 of 43

When benched55.2%37,205.6 matches7 of 43

Makes the deck56.8%18,508 picks with known usage33 of 43

Pick (last seen)4.789,875 packs35 of 43

Taken at5.918,508 picks35 of 43

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

Max Speed Attrition WB62.3%10,586 instances

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (59.1% · 29,156 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Best with

Adjusted associations, ranked by confidence.

Dune Drifter+3.7 pp17,328 games with both in the deck · 4,274 both drawn

How to read this

Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.

At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.

Where it sits in the set

Above 87% of 255 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Feb 11–Mar 18, 2025

Collect

1 printingScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Regular printing

DFT 0201

$0.25 · foil $0.22

Prices

DFT 0201 · Regular printingListings ↗

Finish	Found in	Price
Nonfoil	Play Booster · MTGO Redemption	$0.25
Foil	Play Booster	$0.22

How to get it

A fixed card in MTGO Redemption. It is not a booster pull, so no chance is claimed.

Wizards · Collecting Aetherdrift ↗ · Oct 29, 2026

Details & sources

Legal in: Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration: Edgar Sánchez Hidalgo, DFT 201 · Scryfall ↗
More like this: Max Speed Attrition cards → · Regular printing printings →
Sources: Wizards · Aetherdrift release notes · Oct 19, 2026
Wizards · Collecting Aetherdrift · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗