Card Preview

Baleful Strix

· Artifact Creature — Bird · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)

Buy on TCGplayer

Times Brought

1095

Decks Running

580

In Decks

—

Decklist Inclusion

—

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Baleful Strix

Artifact Creature — Bird

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.

1 / 1

Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Nils Hamm

Final zone distribution

303 instances

1.3%

Library

32.7%

Battlefield

45.2%

Graveyard

6.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

1095 brought · 518 players

Brought to game

1095

Ever drawn

275

Reached battlefield

226

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 44% 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.

≥ -2.4pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=180) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=596).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=38).

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 +1.8pp; 95% confidence interval -2.4pp to +5.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=226

11%

15%

12%

34%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 2 · P75 8 · max 16

On curve 26% (34 / 226 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 51%

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