Live Play Data

Belligerent Yearling

· Creature — Dinosaur · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

153

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=27

19%

15%

41%

T6-9

19%

T10+

Median 7 P25 3 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 19% (5 / 27 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 36%

The "good card" funnel

153 brought · 45 players

Brought to game

153

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

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.

≥ -8.9pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=24) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=97).

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 +9.1pp; 95% confidence interval -8.9pp to +27.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

41 instances

4.9%

Library

29.3%

Battlefield

39.0%

Graveyard

12.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 17 decks
2 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 15 decks
3 Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer 4 decks
4 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 3 decks
5 Blue, Loyal Raptor 2 decks
6 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 2 decks
7 Zilortha, Strength Incarnate 2 decks
8 Huatli, Poet of Unity // Roar of the Fifth People 1 decks
9 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 1 decks
10 Roxanne, Starfall Savant 1 decks

Card text

Belligerent Yearling

Creature — Dinosaur

Trample Whenever another Dinosaur you control enters, you may have this creature's base power become equal to that creature's power until end of turn.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Maxime Minard

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.