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Live Play Data

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{W} {B} · Instant · Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC)
11%
Live Inclusion
Times Brought
829
Decks Running
420
Median Cast Turn
7
Drawn → Played
73%
Format

First-cast turn

n=133
0%
T1
0%
T2
1%
T3
8%
T4
19%
T5
57%
T6-9
15%
T10+
Median 7 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 27
On curve 0% (0 / 133 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 25%

The "good card" funnel

832 brought · 392 players
Brought to game
832
Ever drawn
182
Reached battlefield
133
Still on board at game end
4
≥ -6.3pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=119) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=534).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 44% (n=42).

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 +1.6pp; 95% confidence interval -6.3pp to +9.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

207 instances
1.9%
Library
1.9%
Battlefield
67.6%
Graveyard
8.7%
Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games
Card text
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{W} {B}
Instant
Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.
Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Slawomir Maniak

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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.