Live Play Data

Alpha Deathclaw

· Creature — Lizard Mutant · Fallout (PIP)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

331

Decks Running

170

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

63%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=42

12%

69%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 43% (11 / 42 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 24%

The "good card" funnel

331 brought · 164 players

Brought to game

331

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ -0.6pp

Players who cast this card win 30% of the time (n=34) , vs 15% when it never left the library (n=204).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=23).

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 +15.3pp; 95% confidence interval -0.6pp to +31.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

86 instances

2.3%

Library

25.6%

Battlefield

41.9%

Graveyard

9.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Wise Mothman 108 decks
2 Indominus Rex, Alpha 13 decks
3 The Master, Transcendent 9 decks
4 Jenova, Ancient Calamity 7 decks
5 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 6 decks
6 Dina, Essence Brewer 2 decks
7 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge 2 decks
8 Glissa Sunslayer 2 decks
9 Heroes in a Half Shell 2 decks
10 Kraven the Hunter 2 decks

Card text

Alpha Deathclaw

Creature — Lizard Mutant

Menace, trample When this creature enters or becomes monstrous, destroy target permanent. {5}

: Monstrosity 4. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put four +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)

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Fallout (PIP) · Rare · Illustrated by Daarken

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.