Live Play Data

Baral and Kari Zev

· Legendary Creature — Human · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

251

Decks Running

107

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

74%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=62

23%

16%

34%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 26% (14 / 62 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

The "good card" funnel

251 brought · 106 players

Brought to game

251

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 46% 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.

≥ -8.9pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=45) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=144).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 30% (n=15).

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 +3.1pp; 95% confidence interval -8.9pp to +15.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

81 instances

1.2%

Library

28.4%

Battlefield

40.7%

Graveyard

13.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Baral and Kari Zev

Legendary Creature — Human

First strike, menace Whenever you cast your first instant or sorcery spell each turn, you may cast a spell with lesser mana value that shares a card type with it from your hand without paying its mana cost. If you don't, create First Mate Ragavan, a legendary 2/1 red Monkey Pirate creature token. It gains haste until end of turn.

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Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Fariba Khamseh

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.