Live Play Data

Agent of the Shadow Thieves

· Legendary Enchantment — Background · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

167

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

5.0

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=40

13%

10%

15%

30%

T6-9

18%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 12

On curve 18% (2 / 40 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 52%

The "good card" funnel

167 brought · 79 players

Brought to game

167

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 81% 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.

≥ -8.7pp

Players who cast this card win 23% of the time (n=30) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=98).

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 +6.7pp; 95% confidence interval -8.7pp to +22.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

48 instances

54.2%

Battlefield

18.8%

Graveyard

8.3%

Exile

18.8%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar 5 decks
2 Tinybones, the Pickpocket 4 decks
3 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 3 decks
4 Skullbriar, the Walking Grave 3 decks
5 Alesha, Who Smiles at Death 2 decks
6 Anikthea, Hand of Erebos 2 decks
7 Fire Lord Azula 2 decks
8 Isshin, Two Heavens as One 2 decks
9 Marchesa, the Black Rose 2 decks
10 Nashi, Searcher in the Dark 2 decks

Card text

Agent of the Shadow Thieves

Legendary Enchantment — Background

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature attacks a player, if no opponent has more life than that player, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn."

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Clare Wong

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.