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Chakram Retriever

· Creature — Elemental Dog · Battlebond (BBD)

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Times Brought

168

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

Chakram Retriever

Creature — Elemental Dog

Partner with Chakram Slinger (When this creature enters, target player may put Chakram Slinger into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) Whenever you cast a spell during your turn, untap target creature.

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Battlebond (BBD) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Dmitry Burmak

Final zone distribution

45 instances

2.2%

Library

44.4%

Battlefield

15.6%

Graveyard

2.2%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Helga, Skittish Seer 43 decks
2 Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists 5 decks
3 Whtz, the Bibliophile 5 decks
4 Alaundo the Seer 4 decks
5 Ashling, the Limitless 4 decks
6 Emry, Lurker of the Loch 3 decks
7 Codie, Ravenous Codex 2 decks
8 Kruphix, God of Horizons 2 decks
9 Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor 2 decks
10 Will, Scion of Peace 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

168 brought · 76 players

Brought to game

168

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 80% 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.

≥ +4.9pp

Players who cast this card win 40% of the time (n=24) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=113).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=16).

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 +14.4pp; 95% confidence interval +4.9pp to +23.9pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=25

20%

56%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6 P25 5 · P75 7 · max 13

On curve 32% (2 / 25 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 29%

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.