Live Play Data

Castle Embereth

Land · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

1043

Decks Running

532

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

80%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=179

16%

18%

14%

17%

10%

17%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4 P25 2 · P75 5 · max 13

Cast same turn as drawn 43%

The "good card" funnel

1043 brought · 477 players

Brought to game

1043

Ever drawn

224

Reached battlefield

179

Still on board at game end

169

Once cast, 94% 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.

≥ -10.1pp

Players who cast this card win 24% of the time (n=164) , vs 27% when it never left the library (n=697).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 21% (n=42).

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 -3.3pp; 95% confidence interval -10.1pp to +3.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

248 instances

2.4%

Library

68.1%

Battlefield

13.7%

Graveyard

2.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Krenko, Mob Boss 113 decks
2 Zada, Hedron Grinder 52 decks
3 Zurgo Stormrender 36 decks
4 Kratos, God of War 16 decks
5 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power 14 decks
6 Ovika, Enigma Goliath 12 decks
7 Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald 10 decks
8 Gornog, the Red Reaper 9 decks
9 Neyali, Suns' Vanguard 9 decks
10 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 7 decks

Card text

Castle Embereth

Land

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain. {T}

: Add

: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Rare · Illustrated by Jaime Jones

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.