Live Play Data

Corsair Captain

· Creature — Human Pirate · Foundations (FDN)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

167

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

78%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=35

20%

11%

31%

T6-9

20%

T10+

Median 6 P25 3 · P75 9 · max 14

On curve 26% (7 / 35 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 41%

The "good card" funnel

167 brought · 79 players

Brought to game

167

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 51% 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.

≥ -9.5pp

Players who cast this card win 21% of the time (n=34) , vs 16% when it never left the library (n=109).

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 +5.3pp; 95% confidence interval -9.5pp to +20.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

47 instances

2.1%

Library

38.3%

Battlefield

29.8%

Graveyard

14.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Edward Kenway 31 decks
2 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable 27 decks
3 Admiral Beckett Brass 13 decks
4 Captain Storm, Cosmium Raider 2 decks
5 Don Andres, the Renegade 2 decks
6 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator 2 decks
7 Captain Howler, Sea Scourge 1 decks
8 Cosima, God of the Voyage // The Omenkeel 1 decks
9 Francisco, Fowl Marauder 1 decks
10 Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar 1 decks

Card text

Corsair Captain

Creature — Human Pirate

When this creature enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with " {T}

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Other Pirates you control get +1/+1.

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Foundations (FDN) · Rare · Illustrated by Victor Adame Minguez

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.