Live Play Data
Altar of the Brood
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Artifact
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Khans of Tarkir (KTK)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
1056
Decks Running
462
Median Cast Turn
4
Drawn → Played
84%
Format
First-cast turn
n=197
31%
T1
11%
T2
7%
T3
6%
T4
10%
T5
32%
T6-9
4%
T10+
Median
4
P25
1
· P75
7
· max
15
On curve
31%
(62 / 197 cast on T1)
Cast same turn as drawn
78%
The "good card" funnel
1056 brought · 408 playersBrought to game
1056
Ever drawn
234
Reached battlefield
197
Still on board at game end
135
Once cast, 69% 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.
≥ -4.3pp
Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=180) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=671).
When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 31% (n=34).
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 +2.3pp; 95% confidence interval -4.3pp to +8.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
Final zone distribution
278 instances4.7%
Library
48.6%
Battlefield
29.1%
Graveyard
8.6%
Exile
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
The Wise Mothman
60 decks
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2
Captain N'ghathrod
37 decks
-
3
Brago, King Eternal
17 decks
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4
Bruvac the Grandiloquent
16 decks
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5
Norin the Wary
15 decks
-
6
Homer, the Hermit
14 decks
-
7
Phenax, God of Deception
13 decks
-
8
The Mindskinner
11 decks
-
9
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
11 decks
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10
Krenko, Mob Boss
9 decks
Card text
Altar of the Brood
Artifact
Whenever another permanent you control enters, each opponent mills a card.
Khans of Tarkir (KTK)
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Rare
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Illustrated by Erica Yang
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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.