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

323

Decks Running

110

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

71%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=81

10%

23%

17%

12%

22%

T6-9

11%

T10+

Median 4 P25 3 · P75 7 · max 23

On curve 37% (19 / 81 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 21%

The "good card" funnel

323 brought · 103 players

Brought to game

323

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 47% 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.

≥ -15.8pp

Players who cast this card win 12% of the time (n=58) , vs 19% when it never left the library (n=202).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 13% (n=23).

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 -6.9pp; 95% confidence interval -15.8pp to +2.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

92 instances

5.4%

Library

30.4%

Battlefield

35.9%

Graveyard

7.6%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Leonardo, the Balance 69 decks
2 Heroes in a Half Shell 27 decks
3 Michelangelo, the Heart 8 decks
4 Jodah, the Unifier 3 decks
5 Splinter, Radical Rat 2 decks
6 April O'Neil, Live on the Scene 1 decks
7 Cayth, Famed Mechanist 1 decks
8 Dan Lewis 1 decks
9 Donatello, Mutant Mechanic 1 decks
10 Don & Raph, Hard Science 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 670,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.