Live Play Data

Compulsive Research

· Sorcery · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

260

Decks Running

137

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=57

12%

49%

T6-9

28%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 19

On curve 11% (5 / 57 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 40%

The "good card" funnel

260 brought · 129 players

Brought to game

260

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ +-0.0pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=53) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=155).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 37% (n=15).

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 +12.6pp; 95% confidence interval +-0.0pp to +25.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

82 instances

4.9%

Library

2.4%

Battlefield

68.3%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Compulsive Research

Sorcery

Target player draws three cards. Then that player discards two cards unless they discard a land card.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Common · Illustrated by Sara Winters

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.