Live Play Data

Contraband Livestock

· Instant · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

246

Decks Running

118

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

79%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=31

10%

71%

T6-9

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 10

On curve 0% (0 / 31 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 32%

The "good card" funnel

246 brought · 116 players

Brought to game

246

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -8.4pp

Players who cast this card win 22% of the time (n=29) , vs 15% when it never left the library (n=171).

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 +6.9pp; 95% confidence interval -8.4pp to +22.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

46 instances

4.3%

Library

4.3%

Battlefield

67.4%

Graveyard

10.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Mr. House, President and CEO 92 decks
2 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor 11 decks
3 Bruse Tarl, Roving Rancher 2 decks
4 Lucy MacLean, Positively Armed 2 decks
5 Arabella, Abandoned Doll 1 decks
6 Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer 1 decks
7 Cadira, Caller of the Small 1 decks
8 Duke Ulder Ravengard 1 decks
9 Flaming Fist 1 decks
10 Gluntch, the Bestower 1 decks

Card text

Contraband Livestock

Instant

Exile target creature, then roll a d20. 1—9 | Its controller creates a 4/4 green Ox creature token. 10—19 | Its controller creates a 2/2 green Boar creature token. 20 | Its controller creates a 0/1 white Goat creature token.

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Mark Behm

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 690,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.