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Baral's Expertise

· Sorcery · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

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Times Brought

245

Decks Running

130

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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

Card text

Baral's Expertise

Sorcery

Return up to three target artifacts and/or creatures to their owners' hands. You may cast a spell with mana value 4 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Todd Lockwood

Final zone distribution

67 instances

6.0%

Library

6.0%

Battlefield

59.7%

Graveyard

3.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Shiko and Narset, Unified 37 decks
2 Stella Lee, Wild Card 15 decks
3 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound 6 decks
4 Whtz, the Bibliophile 5 decks
5 Vivi Ornitier 4 decks
6 Alania, Divergent Storm 3 decks
7 Bruvac the Grandiloquent 3 decks
8 Hinata, Dawn-Crowned 3 decks
9 Quandrix, the Proof 3 decks
10 Baral, Chief of Compliance 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

245 brought · 127 players

Brought to game

245

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +1.7pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=32) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=125).

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 +10.7pp; 95% confidence interval +1.7pp to +19.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=39

13%

21%

36%

T6-9

26%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 10 · max 18

On curve 38% (8 / 39 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 26%

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 730,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.