Live Play Data

Dirgur Island Dragon // Skimming Strike

· Creature — Dragon // Instant — Omen · Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

105

Decks Running

Median Cast Turn

—

Drawn → Played

75%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=18

Not enough observed casts yet to show a reliable distribution.

The "good card" funnel

105 brought · 41 players

Brought to game

105

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -4.8pp

Players who cast this card win 47% of the time (n=16) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=68).

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 +21.1pp; 95% confidence interval -4.8pp to +47.1pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

26 instances

11.5%

Library

11.5%

Battlefield

46.2%

Graveyard

11.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Ramos, Dragon Engine 4 decks
2 The Ur-Dragon 4 decks
3 Hylda of the Icy Crown 3 decks
4 Renari, Merchant of Marvels 2 decks
5 Sivitri, Dragon Master 2 decks
6 Teval, the Balanced Scale 2 decks
7 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell 2 decks
8 Arcanis the Omnipotent 1 decks
9 Arthur, Marigold Knight 1 decks
10 Bilbo, Thief in the Night 1 decks

Card text

Dirgur Island Dragon

Creature — Dragon

Flying Ward {2}

(Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {2}

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Skimming Strike

Instant — Omen

Tap up to one target creature. Draw a card. (Then shuffle this card into its owner's library.)

Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM) · Common · Illustrated by Daniel Ljunggren

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 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.