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Brainstealer Dragon

{5} {B} {B} · Creature — Dragon Horror · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)
1%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
202
Decks Running
118
In Decks
884
Decklist Inclusion
1%
Format

Final zone distribution

48 instances
2.1%
Library
27.1%
Battlefield
31.3%
Graveyard
2.1%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

The "good card" funnel

202 brought · 111 players
Brought to game
202
Ever drawn
41
Reached battlefield
20
Still on board at game end
13

Once cast, 65% 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.

≥ -11.2pp

Players who cast this card win 25% of the time (n=16) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=140).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 17% (n=21) — 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 +7.1pp; 95% confidence interval -11.2pp to +25.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=20
0%
T1
0%
T2
0%
T3
0%
T4
10%
T5
65%
T6-9
25%
T10+
Median 6.5 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 15
On curve 60% (2 / 20 cast on T7)
20 of 100 times cast 20%

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 640,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.