Live Play Data

Bristly Bill, Spine Sower

· Legendary Creature — Plant Druid · Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

2011

Decks Running

810

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

79%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=549

34%

16%

22%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3 P25 2 · P75 6 · max 19

On curve 42% (185 / 549 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 45%

The "good card" funnel

2011 brought · 695 players

Brought to game

2011

Ever drawn

486

Reached battlefield

385

Still on board at game end

222

Once cast, 58% 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.

≥ +5.2pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=350) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=1311).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=95).

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 +10.2pp; 95% confidence interval +5.2pp to +15.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

534 instances

2.8%

Library

41.6%

Battlefield

31.6%

Graveyard

7.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Bristly Bill, Spine Sower

Legendary Creature — Plant Druid

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. {3}

: Double the number of +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.

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Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) · Mythic · Illustrated by Daniel Zrom

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.