Live Play Data

Brinelin, the Moon Kraken

· Legendary Creature — Kraken · Commander Masters (CMM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

327

Decks Running

154

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

59%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=63

13%

62%

T6-9

22%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 13

On curve 65% (4 / 63 cast on T8) Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

327 brought · 141 players

Brought to game

327

Ever drawn

103

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 64% 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.

≥ +2.2pp

Players who cast this card win 36% of the time (n=58) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=188).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (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 +15.1pp; 95% confidence interval +2.2pp to +28.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

114 instances

6.1%

Library

34.2%

Battlefield

19.3%

Graveyard

7.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Marvo, Deep Operative 40 decks
2 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep 30 decks
3 Kenessos, Priest of Thassa 15 decks
4 Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty 14 decks
5 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 11 decks
6 Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep 11 decks
7 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait 5 decks
8 Whtz, the Bibliophile 4 decks
9 Braids, Conjurer Adept 2 decks
10 Glarb, Calamity's Augur 2 decks

Card text

Brinelin, the Moon Kraken

Legendary Creature — Kraken

When Brinelin enters and whenever you cast a spell with mana value 6 or greater, you may return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

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Commander Masters (CMM) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Adam Paquette

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.