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Captivating Crew

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

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Times Brought

196

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

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

Final zone distribution

35 instances

40.0%

Battlefield

28.6%

Graveyard

11.4%

Exile

20.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Olivia, Opulent Outlaw 15 decks
2 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable 12 decks
3 Agatha of the Vile Cauldron 6 decks
4 Admiral Beckett Brass 5 decks
5 Brion Stoutarm 5 decks
6 Don Andres, the Renegade 4 decks
7 Eddie Brock // Venom, Lethal Protector 4 decks
8 Iroh, Tea Master 4 decks
9 Zidane, Tantalus Thief 4 decks
10 Edea, Possessed Sorceress 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

196 brought · 86 players

Brought to game

196

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -9.3pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=23) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=121).

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 +1.9pp; 95% confidence interval -9.3pp to +13.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=28

14%

43%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 12

On curve 32% (4 / 28 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 20%

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.