Live Play Data

Barbflare Gremlin

· Creature — Gremlin · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

273

Decks Running

136

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

62%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=51

18%

14%

47%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 15

On curve 27% (9 / 51 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

273 brought · 132 players

Brought to game

273

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 41% 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.

≥ +0.4pp

Players who cast this card win 34% of the time (n=44) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=166).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 15% (n=28).

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 +14.1pp; 95% confidence interval +0.4pp to +27.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

86 instances

2.3%

Library

24.4%

Battlefield

37.2%

Graveyard

8.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Barbflare Gremlin

Creature — Gremlin

First strike, haste Whenever a player taps a land for mana, if this creature is tapped, that player adds one mana of any type that land produced. Then that land deals 1 damage to that player.

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Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander (DSC) · Rare · Illustrated by Matt Stewart

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.