Live Play Data

Captivating Crew

· Creature — Human Pirate · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

253

Decks Running

128

Median Cast Turn

7.5

Drawn → Played

56%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=24

21%

71%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7.5 P25 6 · P75 9 · max 10

On curve 0% (0 / 24 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

253 brought · 126 players

Brought to game

253

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 46% 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.

≥ +3.1pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=22) , vs 14% when it never left the library (n=182).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=17).

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 +24.2pp; 95% confidence interval +3.1pp to +45.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

47 instances

8.5%

Library

23.4%

Battlefield

29.8%

Graveyard

10.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable 22 decks
2 Olivia, Opulent Outlaw 14 decks
3 Agatha of the Vile Cauldron 9 decks
4 Admiral Beckett Brass 7 decks
5 Brion Stoutarm 7 decks
6 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 6 decks
7 Don Andres, the Renegade 5 decks
8 Iroh, Tea Master 5 decks
9 Zidane, Tantalus Thief 5 decks
10 Edea, Possessed Sorceress 4 decks

Card text

Captivating Crew

Creature — Human Pirate

: Gain control of target creature an opponent controls until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

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Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Winona Nelson

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.