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Back in Town card art
Live Play Data

Back in Town

{X} {2} {B} · Sorcery · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)
1%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
181
Decks Running
98
Median Cast Turn
8.0
Drawn → Played
45%
Format

First-cast turn

n=22
0%
T1
0%
T2
0%
T3
5%
T4
0%
T5
82%
T6-9
14%
T10+
Median 8.0 P25 7 · P75 9 · max 15
Cast same turn as drawn 18%

The "good card" funnel

181 brought · 94 players
Brought to game
181
Ever drawn
49
Reached battlefield
22
Still on board at game end
1
≥ -12.8pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=20) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=114).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=25).

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 +7.4pp; 95% confidence interval -12.8pp to +27.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

53 instances
3.8%
Library
1.9%
Battlefield
47.2%
Graveyard
5.7%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Back in Town card

Back in Town

{X} {2} {B}
Sorcery
Return X target outlaw creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Assassins, Mercenaries, Pirates, Rogues, and Warlocks are outlaws.)
Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Greg Staples

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.
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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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.