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Belligerent Yearling

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

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

121

Decks Running

In Decks

241

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

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.

3 / 2

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

Final zone distribution

33 instances

3.0%

Library

27.3%

Battlefield

42.4%

Graveyard

9.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 11 decks
2 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored 10 decks
3 Owen Grady, Raptor Trainer 4 decks
4 Atla Palani, Nest Tender 2 decks
5 Blue, Loyal Raptor 2 decks
6 Indoraptor, the Perfect Hybrid 2 decks
7 Huatli, Poet of Unity // Roar of the Fifth People 1 decks
8 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers 1 decks
9 Roxanne, Starfall Savant 1 decks
10 Zacama, Primal Calamity 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

121 brought · 32 players

Brought to game

121

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.

≥ -11.5pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=19) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=73).

Observed gap +9.1pp; 95% confidence interval -11.5pp to +29.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=22

18%

41%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 18% (4 / 22 cast on T2)

22 of 100 times cast 22%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). 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 660,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.