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Live Play Data

Cauldron Familiar

{B} · Creature — Cat · Jumpstart (JMP)
1%
Live Inclusion
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Times Brought
512
Decks Running
232
Median Cast Turn
5.0
Drawn → Played
87%
Format
Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=110
13%
T1
11%
T2
7%
T3
10%
T4
16%
T5
36%
T6-9
6%
T10+
Median 5.0 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 12
On curve 13% (14 / 110 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 59%

The "good card" funnel

512 brought · 226 players
Brought to game
512
Ever drawn
126
Reached battlefield
110
Still on board at game end
48

Once cast, 44% 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.

≥ -1.8pp

Players who cast this card win 31% of the time (n=107) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=343).

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 +7.4pp; 95% confidence interval -1.8pp to +16.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

135 instances
2.2%
Library
35.6%
Battlefield
42.2%
Graveyard
11.1%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
Cauldron Familiar card

Cauldron Familiar

{B}
Creature — Cat
When this creature enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. Sacrifice a Food: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
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Jumpstart (JMP) · Common · Illustrated by Milivoj Ćeran

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 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.