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Baral and Kari Zev

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

Decks Running

In Decks

382

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Final zone distribution

27 instances

Not enough tracked games yet to show a reliable final-zone breakdown.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

88 brought · 53 players

Brought to game

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -17.3pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=15) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=53).

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 -17.3pp to +21.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

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 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.