Live Play Data

Captain Howler, Sea Scourge

· Legendary Creature — Shark Pirate · Aetherdrift (DFT)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

132

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

45%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=64

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

135 brought · 60 players

Brought to game

135

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -16.8pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=18) , vs 28% when it never left the library (n=78).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 32% (n=22).

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 +5.4pp; 95% confidence interval -16.8pp to +27.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

42 instances

21.4%

Battlefield

59.5%

Graveyard

2.4%

Exile

16.7%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 18 decks
2 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin 16 decks
3 Edward Kenway 5 decks
4 Shabraz, the Skyshark 4 decks
5 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable 3 decks
6 Brallin, Skyshark Rider 3 decks
7 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 3 decks
8 Sauron, the Dark Lord 3 decks
9 Admiral Beckett Brass 1 decks
10 Amber Gristle O'Maul 1 decks

Card text

Captain Howler, Sea Scourge

Legendary Creature — Shark Pirate

Ward—

, Pay 2 life. Whenever you discard one or more cards, target creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn for each card discarded this way. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player this turn, you draw a card.

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Aetherdrift (DFT) · Rare · Illustrated by Mirko Failoni

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 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.