Live Play Data

Donatello, the Brains

· Legendary Creature — Mutant Ninja Turtle · Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Eternal (TMC)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

464

Decks Running

163

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

70%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=105

21%

16%

12%

28%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 5 P25 3 · P75 8 · max 23

On curve 32% (22 / 105 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

464 brought · 157 players

Brought to game

464

Ever drawn

111

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% 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.

≥ -13.7pp

Players who cast this card win 11% of the time (n=73) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=301).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 10% (n=31).

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 -6.2pp; 95% confidence interval -13.7pp to +1.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

120 instances

4.2%

Library

32.5%

Battlefield

36.7%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Leonardo, the Balance 97 decks
2 Heroes in a Half Shell 44 decks
3 Michelangelo, the Heart 17 decks
4 Jodah, the Unifier 4 decks
5 Splinter, Radical Rat 3 decks
6 Mikey & Don, Party Planners 2 decks
7 April O'Neil, Live on the Scene 1 decks
8 Cayth, Famed Mechanist 1 decks
9 Dan Lewis 1 decks
10 Donatello, Mutant Mechanic 1 decks

Card text

Donatello, the Brains

Legendary Creature — Mutant Ninja Turtle

If one or more tokens would be created under your control, those tokens plus a Mutagen token are created instead. Partner—Character select (You can have two commanders if both have this ability.)

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Eternal (TMC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Jason Rainville

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 700,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.