Live Play Data

Bident of Thassa

· Legendary Enchantment Artifact · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

799

Decks Running

438

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Bident of Thassa is in 5% of tracked Commander decks on Playgroup Live, with 59% of drawn copies reaching the battlefield and a median first-cast turn of 6.0.

Bident of Thassa sits in 5% of the 7993 Commander decks that have played a tracked game on Playgroup Live, appearing in 438 distinct lists. That is a focused niche: the Bident earns its slot in creature-forward, combat-heavy blue strategies rather than broad staple lists.

The key usage number is draw-to-play rate. 59% of drawn Bidents reach the battlefield. Median first cast lands on turn 6.0, which is late enough that some copies drawn in the mid-to-late game never resolve before the game ends. The 78% stickiness figure says that when it does land, it tends to stay. The cast-vs-library win-rate delta is a positive signal so far, but both sample sizes remain modest, so treat that lift as directional rather than settled.

The commander spread is broad: 384 distinct players have brought the card to a tracked game, and no single player accounts for more than a small slice of the data. That breadth gives the numbers reasonable cross-archetype coverage, spanning Azorius and Dimir token lists, pirate aggro, and mono-blue tempo strategies.

At a glance

5% of tracked Commander decks include Bident of Thassa
59% of drawn copies reach the battlefield
T6.0 median first-cast turn
78% battlefield stickiness once cast
384 distinct players have brought this card to a tracked game
25% draw rate across games where the card was in the deck

First-cast turn

n=116

20%

53%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 20

On curve 16% (11 / 116 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

The "good card" funnel

799 brought · 384 players

Brought to game

799

Ever drawn

196

Reached battlefield

116

Still on board at game end

59%

Of 799 Bidents brought to games, 196 were drawn, 116 of those were cast, and 78% of resolved copies remained on the battlefield through the end of the game.

≥ -3.3pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=109) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=506).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (n=69) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +4.9pp; 95% confidence interval -3.3pp to +13.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

213 instances

0.9%

Library

42.3%

Battlefield

18.8%

Graveyard

5.2%

Exile

The overwhelming majority of Bidents never leave the library over a game's span, a structural consequence of 100-card singleton, not a sign the card underperforms when it does appear.

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The commander distribution is wide, with Zinnia, Valley's Voice leading at 32 decks and the top ten spanning Azorius, Dimir, Izzet, and Grixis strategies, reflecting the Bident's broad fit across combat-oriented blue lists.

Card text

Bident of Thassa

Legendary Enchantment Artifact

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. {1}

: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Rare · Illustrated by Yeong-Hao Han

Frequently Asked

How often is Bident of Thassa drawn in a Commander game?

Across 772 tracked games where the Bident was in the deck, it was drawn 25% of the time. That is a typical rate for a singleton in a 100-card deck. Of 196 drawn copies, 59% were cast before the game concluded. The median hand-wait before casting was 2 turns, and 29% of drawn-and-cast instances were played on the same turn they were drawn.

What turn does Bident of Thassa usually get cast?

Median first cast is turn 6.0, with the 25th percentile at turn 5 and the 75th at turn 8. Only 16% of casts landed on turn 4, the card's mana-value turn. That low on-curve rate mostly reflects players not drawing it in the opening hand rather than a deliberate choice to hold it: the hand-to-cast data shows most copies are cast promptly once drawn.

Does casting Bident of Thassa actually help you win?

In 109 participations where the Bident reached the battlefield, the caster's normalized win rate was 27%. In 506 participations where it stayed in the library, the rate was 22%. The delta is +4.9 percentage points. Both buckets have meaningful sample sizes, but the confidence interval still spans zero, so read this as an early positive signal rather than a firm conclusion.

Is Bident of Thassa legal in Commander?

Yes. Bident of Thassa is legal in Commander and has no format-specific restriction there. It is also legal in Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, and several other formats. It is not legal in Standard, Pauper, or Pauper Commander.

Which commanders most often run Bident of Thassa?

On Playgroup Live, Zinnia, Valley's Voice leads the multiplayer commander list with 32 decks, followed by Alela, Cunning Conqueror at 18 and Admiral Brass, Unsinkable at 14. The spread is fairly wide: blue-white flier lists, Dimir pirates, and token-generating tempo commanders all show up in the top ten, reflecting how broadly the card's combat-damage trigger applies.

How sticky is Bident of Thassa once it resolves?

78% of cast Bidents end the game on the battlefield rather than being destroyed, exiled, or bounced. For a 4-mana enchantment artifact that opponents have strong incentive to remove, that is a solid retention rate. It suggests the Bident either wins the game before removal lands or slips through as a lower-priority target in multiplayer pods.