Live Play Data

Choked Estuary

Land · Star Trek Commander (TRC)

18%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

5391

Decks Running

2574

Median Cast Turn

3.0

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1106

30%

12%

10%

23%

T6-9

T10+

Median 3.0 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 22

Cast same turn as drawn 63%

The "good card" funnel

5393 brought · 2006 players

Brought to game

5393

Ever drawn

1442

Reached battlefield

1106

Still on board at game end

1034

Once cast, 93% 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.

≥ +0.8pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=970) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=3147).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 27% (n=294).

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 +3.5pp; 95% confidence interval +0.8pp to +6.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1668 instances

2.5%

Library

62.0%

Battlefield

17.4%

Graveyard

5.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 294 decks
2 Doctor Doom, King of Latveria 290 decks
3 Sauron, the Dark Lord 117 decks
4 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 113 decks
5 Captain N'ghathrod 112 decks
6 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver 76 decks
7 Alela, Cunning Conqueror 65 decks
8 Gisa and Geralf 58 decks
9 Inquisitor Greyfax 52 decks
10 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One 52 decks

Card text

Choked Estuary

Land

As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}

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Star Trek Commander (TRC) · Rare · Illustrated by Jessica Rossier

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.