Live Play Data

Cunning Rhetoric

· Enchantment · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

296

Decks Running

169

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=57

14%

16%

12%

33%

T6-9

16%

T10+

Median 5 P25 4 · P75 9 · max 12

On curve 23% (5 / 57 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 27%

The "good card" funnel

296 brought · 160 players

Brought to game

296

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 74% 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.

≥ -16.4pp

Players who cast this card win 17% of the time (n=56) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=179).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 14% (n=22).

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 -5.4pp; 95% confidence interval -16.4pp to +5.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

88 instances

3.4%

Library

47.7%

Battlefield

14.8%

Graveyard

9.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

Card text

Cunning Rhetoric

Enchantment

Whenever an opponent attacks you and/or one or more planeswalkers you control, exile the top card of that player's library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Chris Rallis

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.