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Live Play Data

Bifur, Melodic Rider

{4} {R/W} {R/W} · Legendary Creature — Dwarf Bard · The Hobbit (HOB)
2%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
615
Decks Running
231
Median Cast Turn
7
Drawn → Played
65%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=93
1%
T1
1%
T2
3%
T3
4%
T4
14%
T5
62%
T6-9
14%
T10+
Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 12
On curve 43% (18 / 93 cast on T6) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

615 brought · 202 players
Brought to game
615
Ever drawn
128
Reached battlefield
83
Still on board at game end
43

Once cast, 52% 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.

≥ -5.3pp

Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=70) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=396).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 18% (n=37).

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 +5.0pp; 95% confidence interval -5.3pp to +15.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

142 instances
4.9%
Library
30.3%
Battlefield
30.3%
Graveyard
9.2%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Bifur, Melodic Rider card

Bifur, Melodic Rider

{4} {R/W} {R/W}
Legendary Creature — Dwarf Bard
Storied (If you control three or more artifacts, legendaries, and/or Sagas, you have an enduring story for the rest of the game.) Whenever Bifur enters or attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. As long as you have an enduring story, if a triggered ability of a Dwarf you control triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.
4 / 5
The Hobbit (HOB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Kieran Yanner

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.