Live Play Data

Brallin, Skyshark Rider

· Legendary Creature — Human Shaman · Commander 2020 (C20)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

193

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

47%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=46

15%

17%

13%

43%

T6-9

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 35% (8 / 46 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 42%

The "good card" funnel

196 brought · 84 players

Brought to game

196

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 63% 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.

≥ -10.9pp

Players who cast this card win 32% of the time (n=28) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=109).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 24% (n=33).

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 +7.4pp; 95% confidence interval -10.9pp to +25.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

70 instances

5.7%

Library

28.6%

Battlefield

42.9%

Graveyard

4.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno 15 decks
2 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 11 decks
3 Captain Howler, Sea Scourge 9 decks
4 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 9 decks
5 Gavi, Nest Warden 7 decks
6 Sauron, the Dark Lord 6 decks
7 Flubs, the Fool 5 decks
8 Lorehold, the Historian 5 decks
9 Rielle, the Everwise 3 decks
10 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 2 decks

Card text

Brallin, Skyshark Rider

Legendary Creature — Human Shaman

Partner with Shabraz, the Skyshark (When this creature enters, target player may put Shabraz into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Whenever you discard a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Brallin and it deals 1 damage to each opponent. {R}

: Target Shark gains trample until end of turn.

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Commander 2020 (C20) · Mythic · Illustrated by Paul Scott Canavan

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.