Live Play Data

Departed Deckhand

· Creature — Spirit Pirate · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

102

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

83%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=19

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

102 brought · 57 players

Brought to game

102

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -22.3pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=15) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=66).

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 -2.3pp; 95% confidence interval -22.3pp to +17.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

25 instances

44.0%

Battlefield

44.0%

Graveyard

12.0%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Admiral Brass, Unsinkable 24 decks
2 Admiral Beckett Brass 9 decks
3 Edward Kenway 6 decks
4 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator 4 decks
5 Millicent, Restless Revenant 4 decks
6 Captain Vargus Wrath 2 decks
7 Francisco, Fowl Marauder 2 decks
8 Captain Howler, Sea Scourge 1 decks
9 Captain Storm, Cosmium Raider 1 decks
10 Cosima, God of the Voyage // The Omenkeel 1 decks

Card text

Departed Deckhand

Creature — Spirit Pirate

When this creature becomes the target of a spell, sacrifice it. This creature can't be blocked except by Spirits. {3}

: Another target creature you control can't be blocked this turn except by Spirits.

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The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (LCC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Zoltan Boros

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 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.