Live Play Data

Agate Instigator

· Creature — Lizard Rogue · The List (PLST)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1065

Decks Running

461

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=163

20%

16%

37%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 14

On curve 13% (15 / 163 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

1066 brought · 400 players

Brought to game

1066

Ever drawn

229

Reached battlefield

163

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 59% 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.

≥ +1.6pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=151) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=701).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 23% (n=60).

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 +9.5pp; 95% confidence interval +1.6pp to +17.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

254 instances

2.4%

Library

37.8%

Battlefield

33.1%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Agate Instigator

Creature — Lizard Rogue

Offspring

(You may pay an additional {1}

as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

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The List (PLST) · Rare · Illustrated by Quintin Gleim

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.