Live Play Data

Craig Boone, Novac Guard

· Legendary Creature — Human Soldier · Fallout (PIP)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

264

Decks Running

121

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

76%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=59

14%

47%

T6-9

17%

T10+

Median 7 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 15

On curve 14% (8 / 59 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

The "good card" funnel

264 brought · 120 players

Brought to game

264

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 39% 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.

≥ -4.7pp

Players who cast this card win 28% of the time (n=50) , vs 20% when it never left the library (n=155).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 25% (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 +8.2pp; 95% confidence interval -4.7pp to +21.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

75 instances

1.3%

Library

28.0%

Battlefield

40.0%

Graveyard

10.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Craig Boone, Novac Guard

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier

Reach, lifelink One for My Baby — Whenever you attack with two or more creatures, put two quest counters on Craig Boone. When you do, Craig Boone deals damage equal to the number of quest counters on it to up to one target creature unless that creature's controller has Craig Boone deal that much damage to them.

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Fallout (PIP) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Pierre Raveneau

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 770,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.